Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former White House aide and a charter member of the New York Landmarks Conservancy: "Adaptive re-use [of old buildings] is moving from erratic initiative, a loft here, a firehouse there, to become a superb planning tool. It's no longer just a question of restoring a mansard roof or a neoclassic colonnade but of looking at entire neighborhoods and districts. Now I look for us to move from buildings reborn to communities reborn...
...produced sweet scents which lay in the air so damp and rich you could almost taste them. Bees buzzed in the clover. Far away from the fields the chug of an ancient steam-powered threshing machine could be faintly heard. Birds rustled under the tin porch of the roof...
Despite the success stories, doctoring is often not enough. Composer Jule Styne believes that great hits-My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line-were great from the start and only needed polishing. "Ninety percent of plays that call in a new writer and director fail," says Styne. "Sometimes the best you can do is to convince them to close," adds Joseph Stein, who wrote Fiddler on the Roof and has doctored such plays as Irene and Raisin. "If you're lucky, the show will be mediocre...
Harvey was given a starter pistol. He and one of the men, whom he called Julio, went to the roof on Friday night and fired seven blanks from the pistol to see how much noise it would make. He spent the night at the hotel in a room with Julio. The other two men occupied another room on the same floor...
...middle of a North Carolina forest stands a spanking new white brick building with lots of sliding glass doors and a glass-domed roof, as if the architect intended to build either a hothouse or a window on the world and simply could not decide which. When Peter Riesenberg, professor of history from Washington University and a fellow-in-residence, first saw the National Humanities Center, he cried, "I've lucked into a monastery!" Surveying his $2.5 million home away from home, Martin Krieger, on leave from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Public Affairs, murmured, "After...