Word: skyscraperism
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And what's it like to live, work and play in one of those dozens of places that dress up billboards, fly flags and erect monuments and museums to a product or an idea? You've come to the right place, because we have all the answers, centered, as we...
I wish I had found more that was genuinely new, but for the most part, the $5 billion-a-year electronic-games industry is playing follow the leader. Shoot-'em-ups are modeled on Quake and Tomb Raider. Battle-strategy games behave like Warcraft. Flight simulators tend to resemble Microsoft...
CHRYSLER BUILDING, 1930 Architect: William Van Alen Manhattan's Roman-candle skyscraper, with hubcaps for gargoyles and one of the most recognized crowns anywhere, is 1,048 ft. of shimmering charm.
The only source of suspense in the Schirra episode is a worry over the winds on the day of lift-off. Surely, if three men are going to sit on a skyscraper-size tube of rocket fuel and then be sent into space for 11 days, there must be more...
Ever since, waters from the surrounding bedrock and a maze of old mine tunnels and shafts have been rushing in and reacting with the ores to form a toxic soup that rises steadily, year after year, like water in a vast bathtub. It's the Berkeley Pit, and it's...