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Belluschi says the design of the center combines modern architecture with the culture of Italy. "It's rather simple, with good honest materials and a roof like those in the Italian countryside," Belluschi, who won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architecture in 1973, says. "Hopefully, after people are through with all these current fashionable things in architecture, they'll come back to this," he adds. Enthusiastic about Italian-Americans establishing a national cultural center, Belluschi says, "It's the natural instinct of a society to become interested in its identity and make the most...
Briggs currently has "extensive roof and heat-loss problems that already needed extensive repair and this is the lowest-possible-cost solution and just the right size for basketball," Wyatt said...
...sunstroke and dehydration. Dozens of children lay sprawled on the cool terrazzo floor of the two-story mansion, while one mother nursed her newborn baby, aptly named Peru. "There are people in the branches of the trees, on top of the mangled iron gate and even on the roof of the embassy," wailed one beleaguered Peruvian official. "There's not enough room for one more person...
...start. It may or may not be as rewarding as the dig for the warriors, who can thank grave robbers for their remarkable preservation. Only four years after the death of Shihuangdi, marauders made off with all the bronze weapons the soldiers carried, and set fire to the wooden roof that covered the long rows of the terra cotta army. The roof collapsed and buried the soldiers alive, as it were, much as Vesuvius' lava covered the citizens of Pompeii. The tomb may have been similarly looted - it must have been an irresistible target. For the Emperor...
Philly tries hard and succeeds a little at a school for retarded adults. He goes to a performance of Fiddler on the Roof, whose music he loves, and then backstage with the show's star, Zero Mostel. "How old are you?" asks Mostel. "Sixteen," says Philly, without hesitation. "Me too," says Mostel. Then they sing If I Were a Rich Man together, a comic genius and a man who could be called an idiot, meeting on equal terms of humanity...