Word: spaciousness
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Washington's Park Police, however, recently have grown almost neurotically literalminded about kites ever since an underground newspaper asked for a permit to stage a kiteflying contest. The Smithsonian Institution was then denied a permit to hold its annual kiteflying carnival on the spacious Mall between the Capitol and Washington Monument. Then when a local lawyer named Frederic Schwartz Jr. filed suit for kite privileges, the Park Police really cracked down. They arrested four kitefliers one weekend and eleven the next, using horses and motor scooters to enforce law and order on the grass. One sergeant leading a miscreant...
...overhaul of the monumental classical Fifth Avenue façade, designed in 1896 by Richard Morris Hunt, the leading U.S. architect of his time. Roche has got rid of the wooden outhouse-like box added to cut down drafts at the main entrance, and is providing a spacious, three-tiered staircase flanked on both sides by formal plazas and a serried row of fountains set in reflecting pools. More controversial is his plan to replace Hunt's grand staircase inside with two escalators and a passageway in order to increase the flow of traffic to the rear galleries. "There...
...graceful, spacious mansion stands imposingly just off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in the select neighborhood of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It bears a most impressive title: The Library of Presidential Papers. Yet it is a library without a librarian. About the only original presidential document there is a John F. Kennedy letter valued at $175 and apparently signed by his secretary. The building also boasts a presidential bedroom in which no President has ever slept or seems likely even to visit. The organization's letterhead carries a seal so similar to that of the President...
...rique and settles back to enjoy the eight-minute ride (perhaps with Frequent Visitor Brigitte Bardot) up the steep, jagged mountainside. If he does not own an apartment in a condominium, he will most likely stay at the HÔtel des Dromonts, with 40 spacious, tastefully furnished rooms. The interior resembles a pyramid-shaped grotto where the walls jut out or recede at dramatic angles. The most exciting feature is the architectural concept of integrated activity. The bar, dining room and lobby are visible to one another and, wherever possible, the architects have avoided staircases in favor of tilted...
...headed out for Savin Hill, a recently remodeled station between Park and Dorchester and another free switch. Coming back intown from there I got a nice surprise: a ride in one of those new-fangled trains. It was better than any regular train I'd ever ridden; it was spacious, clean, and there was a loudspeaker to announce stops, just as there is in New York...