Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Propelled by winds that gusted up to 100 m.p.h., the flames hedgehopped spiny ridges, leaped from tree to tree, jumped across streets from rooftop to rooftop. "It sounded like a locomotive," recalled a terrified homeowner, "like surf battering a shore, snapping, crackling and popping...
...galore for his beloved Bouffes-Parisiens. The two works that Darmstadt saw, The Transformed Cat and Daphnis and Chloe, are quintessential Offenbach. One, resembling a Freudian treatment of La Fontaine, tells of a cat's metamorphosis into a woman of feline charm who turns at night into a rooftop mehitabel; the other shows Pan thwarted in a sneaky attempt to teach Chloe the art of love-and ends with a riproaring, garter-snapping cancan. The ideal musiquette combined an ironic exposition of human foibles with a lusty, busty display of wenches who did not earn their keep by dancing...
...show; the open-end geometry that ornaments the facade functions as a sunbreak and keeps the interior cool without cumbersome draperies. The house is built on seven levels that form a series of "living platforms," the lowest being a utility room, while the uppermost is a rooftop lookout-a modern version of the widow's walk. Rudolph, chairman of the department of architecture of Yale and designer of its new all-concrete, Art and Architecture Building, had originally specified poured concrete for the Milam family, but smooth-cast sand-colored concrete blocks for walls turned out to cost only...
...each other for the past fortnight, last week showed a faint relaxation of tension. British armored cars, with Union Jacks covering their hoods, patrolled the no man's land between the Greek and Turkish sectors in the capital city of Nicosia. Irregulars of both sides slowly evacuated their rooftop positions to squads of British troops. Everyone held his breath when three Greek monks were slain by Turks. But it was reportedly not a political killing: the Turks were said to have been seeking revenge because a dog belonging to the monastery had attacked their goats. Emotions are kept...
...Turkish Cypriots into a panic, since they well knew that the announced goal of Makarios and the Greek Cypriots is enosis, that is, eventual union with Greece. Somebody started shooting, and fighting spread rapidly along the frontier between the Greek and Turkish sectors of the capital city of Nicosia. Rooftop snipers traded shots, and teen-age terrorists slugged it out in the suburb of Traphonas, which has a mixed population...