Word: roofed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presence on 53rd Street. Fox and Fowle, the New York City architectural firm, has created an airy space within Architect Kevin Roche's Hutton tower. Although the museum's facade is faced with the same pinkish granite as the tower, it is free of Roche's flamboyant touches -- mansard roof and lobby fit for the enthronement of pharaohs...
Only a few years ago, Merrill Lynch led a stampede by Wall Street investment + firms to create "financial supermarkets" that would allow customers to shop under one roof for everything from money-market funds and individual retirement accounts to life insurance and home mortgages. One of Merrill Lynch's boldest expansion moves was investing in a real estate operation that bought and sold homes, offered mortgages and provided relocation services for transferred executives...
...tragedy and the exercise of generosity. Yet, as soon as a community develops, individual freedom begins to be restricted. The result is the perpetual American balancing act, which applies to disputes on AIDS, drug testing, abortion, school prayer, to any issue or condition that would blow off the national roof were there no continuing, deliberate compromise between personal liberty and citizenship...
...When a spaceship crashes through the roof of the Tanners' garage, out pops a wisecracking alien, who promptly moves in with the family. The Tanners accept this turn of events with amazing matter-of-factness, but ALF is no place to look for plausibility -- or charm. The outer-space visitor looks like an Ewok from the wrong side of the tracks and talks like Charlie the Tuna. In no time he is barging into the bathroom, hogging the stereo headset and cranking out ancient one-liners ("Do you get Sesame Street where you live?" "No, and frankly...
...probably no coincidence that Our House, the season's best family show, is the one that is not a half-hour sitcom. The form may simply have grown too fast paced and hyped with gag lines to accommodate the subtleties of relatives living under one roof. In a scene from Our House, Brimley is concerned about his grandson, who has been sulking because his moneymaking project of painting neighborhood curbs is being threatened by a pair of bullies. Brimley walks into the boy's room and finds him brooding alone. Instead of launching into a typical TV heart-to-heart...