Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough, burly, street-smart politician, with a promising future and a flair for the spectacular. When New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay ordered the flag atop city hall lowered as a gesture of protest against the Viet Nam War. Matthew J. Troy Jr. appeared on the roof, coat flapping in the breeze, and put the flag back up. Said he: "That's where it belongs...
...Wilder is funny and endearing, we never quite believe in the character he plays. He is not really a pure Polish rabbi, he is Gene Wilder doing bits. We are asked to laugh at all too human failings, as we laugh at Tevye's in Fiddler on the Roof, but through some lapse of direction or acting, we are never really shown a man. - John Skow
Everywhere in the U.S.-in towns and villages as well as in cities and suburbs-the cost of shelter is going through the roof. Despite runaway rents, galloping home prices and the difficulties of finding mortgages and paying sky-high interest rates, demand remains strong. The availability of apartments, coops, condominiums and houses is tight, and there is no sign that the housing boom is about to bust. Meanwhile, the worsening shelter squeeze is changing the way America lives-for the worse...
With a touch of pressagentry worthy of Disneyland, Jimmy Carter climbed to the roof of the West Wing of the White House one sunny morning last week to dedicate a $28,000 solar heating system. At the same time, he announced a solar energy program for the U.S. It sets a goal of meeting 20% of the nation's energy needs from all forms of solar energy by the year 2000.* Said Carter: "No foreign cartel can set the price of sun power, no one can embargo...
...Government uses an astonishingly broad definition of solar energy. It includes passive thermal systems, like the one on the White House roof that uses 32 glass panels to heat water, photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight to electricity, and also wind power, hydroelectric dams and the burning of wood...