Word: room
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brandt and his flaxen-haired Norwegian wife Rut were at the door to greet the crowd. More than 500 ordinary Germans, who normally would have been held back by police lines, trooped into the splendidly furnished 14-room residence. Stiff at first, they gawked at the Gobelin tapestry on the wall and perched awkwardly on the edge of burgundy settees and easy chairs. But the uneasiness quickly wore off. Soon workingmen in open shirts, longhaired youths and nurses from a nearby hospital were helping themselves to cigarettes, guzzling beer and surveying the place as if they owned...
...Mothers' last concerts. For five years, Zappa and the eight other Mothers tried to make satiric hash of rock, displaying a suicidal urge, or so it seemed to many, to play music so weird, as Zappa put it, that "you just have to run screaming from the room the moment you hear us." To many people, Zappa, in fact, has often seemed to be a force of cultural darkness, a Mephistophelian figure serving as a lone, brutal reminder of music's potential for invoking chaos and destruction. Zappa sees himself merely as a devil's advocate...
...company headquarters in Manhattan. His professional leap forward sharply set back his personal standard of living. For the first time in his life, he cannot buy a house or rent an apartment that fits both his means and his expectations. He moved out of a $400-a-month, eleven-room house in the capital; he is willing to pay $600 for less space in an area that has commendable schools and is not more than one hour's commuting time away from Manhattan-but cannot find anything suitable. He is also willing to buy a house. "When I tell...
...within walking distance of his job and in a neighborhood with reasonably good schools. He and his wife are still looking-even though they have raised their limit to $40,000. "We're in a bind," says the professor, who now pays $275 a month for a six-room apartment three miles from his work. "We cannot find a decent house, and we cannot afford to stay in an apartment...
...high cost of conventional housing has spurred the development of a new kind of dwelling: the inexpensive, mass-produced "modular homes." This year scores of companies are bringing them out. Such instant housing consists of room-sized sections-generally 12 ft. wide and up to 60 ft. long-that are built, wired, piped and often decorated on cost-cutting factory assembly lines, then trucked up to 400 miles to a site, swung onto foundations by a crane, and fastened together. Builders claim that the modules are 10% to 25% less expensive than conventional houses...