Word: roofing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Erika T. Rhone '01 of the Callbacks has been nominated for Best Mixed-Group Soloist for her performances of "The Roof" and "Turn Back Time" on the group's latest compact disc "Don't Look Down." And the Krokodiloes' 2000 CD "Black Tie Affair" has been nominated for the Best Male-Group Album...
...Roof," one of the two songs for which she was nominated, is a stylized rhythm and blues tune made famous by Mariah Carey...
...told that the earth revolves in such a way as to make the stars apparently revolve around Polaris from East to West over the course of a night," Kraig G. Salvesen '01 writes in an e-mail. "It is another thing to camp out with friends on the roof of the Smithsonian Center playing the guitar and actually watch it happen...
...plans. Backpacking through China, she grew enamored of Tibet. After studying its language for a year, she spent six months on the plateau in 1998 and later produced an exhibition of her work featuring Polaroids of Chinese and Tibetans next to their overlapping handprints. Since then, travel to the Roof of the World has become as common for artists as a paint-spattered studio, and many galleries peddle their renderings of noble Tibetan rustics. "Chinese who go to Tibet can't help but see it as foreign," Li says...
...traditional houses have survived long after their mainland counterparts have been replaced with concrete boxes. The village of Shanhou was built at the end of the 19th century to house various branches of the Wong family, successful traders who had returned to the island. The elegant curves of the roof ridges end in the skyward pointing "swallow tails" once typical of southeast China. Some houses are filled with period furnishings and costumes, and the family shrine still represents the family's departed ancestors. A winding path up the island's highest point leads up to an ancient Taoist temple, giant...