Word: skylighted
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...Picture, for example, a retired Army officer and his wife have settled into what seems to be a peaceful and stable routine. He dabbles at painting; she reads and turns out occasional book reviews. One rainy night, a stray cat drops through the skylight in the captain's studio and moves in with them, apparently for good. The next morning, seeing the animal in a bowl that forms part of a still life her husband has arranged, the wife says, "If you could paint that -- that would be a picture." The remark is not intended in entire innocence; it opens...
...show the great ship sitting upright, pointing toward the north and covered with a fine layer of silt. The port and starboard anchor chains are wrapped around their capstans, still holding the anchors in place, and in the top deck there is a gaping hole that was once a skylight. Through it, Ballard told his viewers, "you can see right down the grand staircase." The railings and wooden deck are intact, the individual planks clearly visible. The davits still hang empty over the side, their lifeboats, which saved only 700 of the ship's 2,200 passengers, long gone...
...have risen in the Loop as to have landed there. The outside of the futuristic new State of Illinois Center has three tiers of curving glass setbacks fanning out in a vertically striped polygon. A canopy of pink and white glass panels dresses the base; a sliced-cylinder skylight emerges at the top. Inside, in a light-filled atrium, salmon pink terraces climb for 17 stories around a circular plaza. Glass elevators rise and fall along the outside of two towers. As little Dorothy once said, "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more...
...have to do is ask the computer to give me a list of all male members between the ages of 18 and 50 with an interest in sports." Amateur Astronomer George Litsios of Closter, N.J., owns a telescope that he keeps pointed toward the heavens from under a skylight in his attic. But these days he spends more time watching a computer screen displaying a TellStar program, made by Scharf Software Systems of Boulder, Colo. With the help of the software, Litsios, 52, created a graphic representation of the heavens just the way they appear from his backyard by simply...
...roofers worked to patch the leak in the skylight, Erdmann blamed the indoor deluge on cracks that develop between the glass and the panes when the building shifts. He said that the skylight has leaked for years and added that the glass should be removed and rubber seals installed...