Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ritual Destruction. Soutine had a more difficult time finding his own style than did his fellow refugees from Russian ghetto life, who once they had arrived in Paris, turned toward cubism, like Jacques Lipchitz, or, like Chagall, romanticized the shtetl folklore with fiddlers on the roof. At the time that Lithuanian-born Soutine went to Ceret, he was still in his 20s, all but unknown. There he embarked on a series of extraordinarily dislocated mountain views, with houses and trees piled like limp wads of anthropomorphic soil...
Kahn's solution is a pavilion roofed over with vaults. Visitors will first en ter a reception area, then pass under an arcade to the permanent collection, which will be composed initially of only 100 choice objects. The exterior walls of the museum will be solid for security reasons, but Kahn has made sure the interior will be light and airy. He picked the barrel-vault roof not for its classical associations but because of its structural strength. Such vaults can easily span 100 ft. between supports, allowing museum spaces to be open and flexible...
...destroyed, nearly 1,000 dead, and 10,000 homeless. Many sections of Saigon were heavily damaged and 120,000 people left homeless. Estimates of the damage to Hue ran as high as 80%. One out of five of Dalat's 82,000 people was without a roof over his head...
...streets were littered with dead. A black-shirted Communist soldier sprawled dead in the middle of a road, still holding a hand grenade. A woman knelt in death by a wall in the corner of her garden. A child lay on the stairs, crushed by a fallen roof. Many of the bodies had turned black and begun to decompose, and rats gnawed at the exposed flesh...
...carry higher commissions. Quite a few also like to find a "hot" industry and then recommend one of the most depressed companies in the field. Explains one top broker: "In a good industry, with profits going up quarter by quarter, even the garbage is going to go through the roof. If you want to make the biggest gain, you pick the most marginal company...