Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cluttered block between Mt. Auburn Street and Massachusetts Avenue needed something spacious and airy; Holyoke Center, with its jumble of panels and colors, simply adds more clutter. The Center's utility core, projecting as it does much too far above the roof, gives the building an overall unbalanced appearance. And I will not be told to wait until Phase 1-B is finished: twice as much of a bad thing can only be twice...
Rhythm was present only as a sort of prose pulse, often interrupted for long, breathless silences. Harmony was so spare and skeletal that the few familiar chords struck were as pleasantly refreshing as rain on a barn roof. Melody's status slumped so badly that it became only an intermission joke-"Sing me that nice part of the thing we just heard." But most of all, precise composition yielded to aleatory music-the music of chance, in which performers are free to improvise with little control beyond their own musicality. In all the baffling proceedings, Berberian and Roman Flutist...
Like rain on the roof...
...cool, church-like auditorium with high stucco walls and an arched roof. In the audience sat 500 Mexico City high school girls wearing blue school uniforms. On stage were five Harvard students playing chamber music...
...delayed the Avanti's debut by six months; Egbert had confidently predicted 10,000 sales of the '63 Avantis-at about $5,000 each-but only 1,743 have moved. Similarly hurt was the sales potential of another Egbert innovation, the Wagonaire station wagon with a sliding roof; at the last minute, Studebaker discovered that the top leaked and had to pull the Wagonaires off the assembly line to correct it. Compounding these fumbles, a strike at a supplier plant stopped Studebakers supply of car doors for six weeks...