Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around the gaudy streets of a meticulously reconstructed 1910 Chicago, hungry for trouble. Ben treats each new experience as if he were staring down the well of life. One time he falls in and drowns. But if life is a cheat, death is a double-dealer. On a morgue slab, Ben is given a dose of Adrenalin by a quack. In an outrageous parody of the Lazarus scene dear to so many biblical spectacles, Ben rises, so full of life that he quivers like a tuning fork for hours...
...remember the words, recited the 23rd Psalm, and eight Kennedy girls made up the offertory procession that bore the hosts, wine, ciborium and chalice to the altar. After the Mass, the clan drove to Brookline and buried the founder in a family plot marked by a large granite slab reading simply KENNEDY...
...office tower above Grand Central Terminal. To build it the company would either have to destroy Grand Central's facade (a superlative example of the ornate Beaux Arts style and a splendid climax to the long sweep of lower Park Avenue) or crowd it with a bland, impersonal slab set only 30 feet behind it. Either plan, the commission ruled, was unacceptable in a city already too poor in dramatic vistas. The commission's decision is legally binding, but Penn Central is expected to contest it in the State Supreme Court...
...training camp at Grossinger's resort, the slab-chested challenger, Jerry Quarry, 24, growled: "I'll come out burn-in'." At the nearby Concord Hotel, the undefeated champion, Joe Frazier, 25, growled: "I'll come out smokin'." Fight fans have learned to expect that the loud er the talk the duller the fight - but not this time. At Madison Square Garden last week, both fighters were burnin' and smokin' in one of the hottest heavyweight bouts in recent years...
...House. Lever has since been copied so often?and so badly?that it has lost much of its impact. But 16 years ago, it astonished and delighted the U.S. In its use of sheer glass curtain walls, its spacious plaza (75% of the site), and bold positioning of horizontal slab and vertical shaft, it was revolutionary. More than any other, it set the style of office buildings in the 1950s and '60s. Even today, despite rumors that the company will tear down and rebuild it, Lever Bros, insists it will keep the building, proudly uses its silhouette to identify...