Word: roof
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...keep on buying practically forever. It is out after more customers like the Don Martins of Houston. For three generations, going back to Sue d'Amico, 75, Don Martin's mother-in-law, the family has bought nearly all its important goods at Sears, from a new roof to a garage-door opener to countless appliances, clothes and Cabbage Patch dolls. Says Lola Martin, Don's wife: "It's always been there, and it will always be there. When we shop at Sears, we say, 'We're going to Sears.' When...
...whose authenticity all experts agree, and his life is obscure. Since the Renaissance there have been few great artists about whom less is known than Watteau. He is almost as much of an enigma as Vermeer. He was born in Valenciennes in 1684, the son of a Flemish roof tiler. Until a few years before, Valenciennes was part of Flanders, not France; and Watteau's Flemish origins may have had more than a casual meaning to him, since the main influence on his work was Rubens. Nothing is known about his political views, family affections or sexual life...
...Public Library. Because of budget restraints, the main research library, housed in Carrère and Hastings' magnificent 1911 neoclassical palace at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, which once was open 87 hours a week, could afford to stay open only 43 hours. Rain was leaking through the roof and into the stacks, endangering a number of the library's 6.5 million volumes. New Yorkers looked upon the library, supported for eight decades by a combination of private philanthropy and tax dollars, as a shabby invalid. Even "Patience" and "Fortitude," the majestic marble lions that guard the library...
Stones' previous U.S. record (7 ft. 7¼ in.) was set in 1976, four days, unfortunately, after his second bronze Olympics. In Montreal, he griped about the stadium's (still) unfinished roof for a week, and ended up being psyched-out by a rain spot on the runway. Similarly noisy and self-destructive were his signature quarrels with amateur athletic officials, who declared him a professional in 1978 for taking $33,633 over the table in a televised "superstars" competition. When it started to appear that Stones would be shut out of an amateur's income...
...reconstruction scheduled for completion in October, will rebuild the basement and third floors of the three story building. The third floor will also be extended onto the roof of the two story building next door...