Word: spire
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...walls of Paris' Maeght Gallery last week, nudes floated over the Champs-Elysees, an ass crouched impaled on the spire of the church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres with no visible air of discomfort, a sleek donkey proffered flowers to a foreshortened mermaid floating in a bubble above the Bastille. Over the Opera, a huge bouquet flowered against a turkey-blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall...
...this environment, Zeckendorf is rarely diverted from dreaming up big and complicated real-estate deals. Last week he invited reporters into his office to disclose his biggest deal yet. He had just bought control from the Chrysler family of the famed, spire-topped Chrysler Building, its annex, the Chrysler Building East, and the nearby Graybar Building† owned by Eastern Offices, Inc. Price: $52 million. It was the biggest office-building transaction in modern real-estate history, approached only by the sale of the Empire State Building for $51.5 million...
Thus, with laconic drama, the ninth British Everest expedition told of the conquest of earth's highest spire. In reaching the roof of the world simply because it is there, the New Zealander and the Sherpa mountaineer had done what Columbus, Scott and Lindbergh had gloriously done before: asserted that puny man can measure all things earthly...
...fall is a labyrinth, gashed by echoing crevasses where a cathedral spire might be lost, crisscrossed by sharp seracs (ice towers) that no man can scale. In the deepest ice corridors, the air is foul and weakening; often as the climbers moved, ice blocks the size of houses vanished into chasms that yawned at their feet. Always, there was snow...
...took Ike from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There, at Dartmouth College's commencement exercises, the President marched up to receive an honorary doctorate, stumbling once over the unwieldy academic robes. But his oratorical touch was sure. With the graceful spire of the Dartmouth library as an appropriate backdrop, the President talked easily about the need for a future which values fun, courage, and the basic greatness of U.S. life. This brought him to a paragraph which was headlined as his answer to Joe McCarthy's campaign to purge State...