Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrust through the windows. The driver tried to inch ahead. A voice shrieked: "Watch out! You're running over somebody!" The driver tried to back up-no use. A woman's legs appeared on the hood, and disappeared as she climbed over the windshield and onto the roof. More people began stomping on the roof, and as it started to cave in, Larrazábal climbed out a window and onto the roof to try to calm the mob. A fat woman in a tight skirt nearly squashed him in a bear hug. Larrazábal frantically leaped...
...slapped on looping butterfly canopies that he now says he would never do again. When Yamasaki discovered the enormous versatility and flexibility of concrete, he went, as he says, "a bit slaphappy." His building for the American Concrete Institute is basically a single passageway whose concrete walls support a roof cantilevered out over the offices on either side. This is ingenious, but Yamasaki turned the roof into a parade of jitterbugging triangles that induce not serenity but instant fatigue. As for the Wayne State University College of Education Building, with its nonstructural facade of 120 faintly Arabian slabs of precast...
...loudmouth who always loses the girl; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. Most memorable roles: the boorish Joe the Twirler in 1942's screen version of Thurber's The Male Animal, and Big Daddy's grasping son, Gooper, in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
Bomb Lease. In his weekly ads, Brooks underplays the special virtues of his houses (''Has almost luxury bathroom with removable ladder to secret sunbathing roof garden") and jeers at their shortcomings ("Library all of eight feet square suitable for erudite dwarf"). He also whets sales appeal by describing his clients as "hedonist of 19,'' "redheaded sculptress,'' "girl physiotherapist," "former Harvard lecturer turned tycoon in ladies' underwear.'' Frequently, Brooks offers an acid explanation of the owner's reasons for selling: "One of the big pots in chamber music, leader...
...shoot two intimate friends and watch a third sink smoothly into quickland) comes to realize that his mission will involve him in shedding blood. This, however, comes rather to appeal to him ("I enjoyed it, I enjoyed it," he mumbles brokenly), and he takes to strutting around the roof-tops of dynamited Turkish trains in billowing native garb. His new-found joy, alas, is rudely shattered: he is mistreated by Jose Ferrer, playing a Turkish delight, and cozened by Jack Hawkins--that is, the Turks outrage his body, and the English his ideals. This double misfortune turns our Good Shepherd...