Word: roof
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There are two startling passages in another new off-Broadway play, the keenly observed if scattershot Sophistry, set on a college campus. One features Austin Pendleton, whose credits stretch back to Fiddler on the Roof and Oh, Dad, Poor Dad. The other belongs to Anthony Rapp, 21. When they meet as teacher and student in a sexual encounter that degenerates into a harassment charge, Rapp's blend of rocketing energy and terror turned bravado rules the stage...
...plummeted, the political climate has improved. While Jimmy Carter created tax breaks to spur solar development, Ronald Reagan viewed the incentives as government meddling in the energy business and unceremoniously scrapped them. In a symbolic move, Reagan also took down the solar panels Carter had installed on the roof of the White House. (The Clinton Administration is considering whether to put up new ones.) "Reagan took the steam and momentum out of solar and other forms of renewable energy development for a good 10 years," says Strong...
...been the only obstacle between him and a Nobel Prize. He was the subject of a profile in last Sunday's Parade magazine, which reported that he once "had a midnight brawl on a beach with a fellow researcher," and which discussed his penchant for sunning himself on the roof rather than working...
...here's where Malikah Jamillah Sherman of scenic Staten Island put distance between herself and the pack. Malikah built a three-dimensional city--sort of like a diorama but not really--out of colorful construction paper. On the roof of each building, she wrote a word or two describing a social problem that would not exist in her perfect world. Additional sheets of construction paper were put to good use in the compilation of a booklet about her best-of-all-possible-worlds metropolis. One judge was delighted to discover the paper town's dual use as a crown: during...
...looking towards copper," she said. "The original roof is turncoated steel--not, in my opinion, the best type of material. And it wasn't put on properly...