Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their problems but had trouble agreeing on anything, including a ceasefire. On Tuesday, when the conference seemed to be ready to postpone that question and get on to other business, former Prime Minister Saeb Salem declared that his wife in Beirut had spent the previous night in a bomb shelter. He had no intention of discussing anything, said Salem, until the conference had at least agreed to a ceasefire. That evening, Salem got his wish. According to Beirut newspapers, it was the 180th official cease-fire to be declared in Lebanon since the civil war broke...
...same so-called accelerated cost-recovery feature of the 1981 law has helped to spark an explosion in new and untested tax-shelter schemes. They range from the blatantly illegal to the legal but outrageous, and they are peddled like cars. About 260 shelter promoters displayed their wares last year in, appropriately enough, Las Vegas...
...bother us with the facts; just house the people." The result: today's public-housing enigma. Local public-housing authorities still represent the best approach to addressing housing issues. They remain the only entity in the residential field whose sole objective is the provision of shelter, not the accumulation of profit...
...part by donations collected on the street, and anyone who shakes a donations box earns a commission in cash. In People's Park, the site of the famous 1969 demonstrations, people leave clothing, books, and anything else they don't want in a wooden "free bin," Berkeley has a shelter for the homeless; in addition, one can get away easily with sleeping on a living room sofa in one of the student residential co-ops at the University of California...
Some of the buildings were ego trips that overpowered the art they were to shelter and display, among them Frank Lloyd Wright's dizzying Guggenheim Museum (1959) and Marcel Breuer's brutal Whitney Museum of American Art (1966), both in New York City. Philip Johnson's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln (1963) returned to a somewhat saccharine classicism. But the one museum of that hectic period that seemed to work best for the display of art was Barnes' Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1971). Its architectural form is not particularly...