Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is the danger that the Communists will shell the airports. There is also the grim possibility that South Vietnamese forces will turn their guns on Tan Son Nhut, Newport, or even the American embassy's small rooftop heli copter pad if the Americans make a move to evacuate. Given the anti-Americanism that flared in Danang and Nha Trang before they fell, it is hard to say who might pose the greater threat-Communist enemy or South Vietnamese friend...
...Harvard Lampoon Friday recovered its bronze mascot, a three-foot-tall Ibis, after what a Lampoon spokesman called a police stakeout in Saugus. The bird was stolen almost a year ago from its rooftop perch on the Lampoon Castle...
Except during his service abroad, he has lunched every day for as long as anyone can remember at the same rooftop restaurant of a Lisbon hotel. His hair has been cut by the same barber for 30 years, and his nails have been cared for by the same manicurist for 26 years. A teetotaler, he has stayed trim by regular riding on his horse Achilles, the mount on which he has won several national and international competitions. He can also be somewhat overbearing. In Guinea, he told fat officers to lose weight, and if they did not, he ordered them...
...York, by Anna Cora Mowatt, who was America's first woman playwright. So this is the 19th century Americana of Mrs. Mowatt's quaint, forgotten classic refracted through the 20th century Americana of suburban matrons in amateur theatricals. Except that the players in Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater are all totally professional...
...most important corner of the Yard, they have tried to design an inconspicuous building which will have a most conspicuous range of environmental effects. The visual closure which reinforces one's sense of security within the Yard is gone. A vast new vista will be opened across the new rooftop. When the Pusey Library's foundations were excavated, the rectangular spatial envelope of the Yard was destroyed--possibly not forever, but probably for a long time...