Word: stairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic boom, people paid guys to score them coke and hookers. I was in high school at the time, but that's what I gathered from Bret Easton Ellis novels. These days, when name dropping has been replaced by gym dropping ("I was wondering, while I was on the Stair Master..."), rich people are spending their money to keep pleasure away from them. I know a guy who belongs to a gym that charges him extra for not going. And I've got a guy who keeps me from getting the phone numbers of hot, dangerous women. He's called...
With just seven weeks left before the contractors are supposed to turn the keys over, the building's interior is far from complete. While the upstairs office space is almost finished, with carpeting already on the floor, the railings for the "interior central communicating stair" as it is termed by the architects, have yet to be fitted and all of the auditoriums are seatless...
...this is more than just a house Christopher Reeve could use. The top floor is a concrete box that hangs implausibly over the column-free middle floor, as if two halves of an Eskimo Pie were held apart by nothing. The box is supported by a huge spiral-stair-filled column outside and anchored on one side by a vestigial-looking tendon that plunges into the ground. On the middle story, floor-to-ceiling windows slide away on hidden tracks to make the room disappear almost entirely. If that's not complex enough, there's a three-story-high bookcase...
...Between 1.5 and 2 miles west on Mount Auburn rests (in peace) the Mount Auburn Cemetery. A few laps around these serene grounds may not exactly be encouraged by Cemetery personnel, but are certain to spiritually refresh any over-studied Harvard student. And be sure not to miss the stair-climbing cross-training challenge of the cemetery's tower; it has a killer view of downtown Boston...
This is the point where I would like to happily announce I reached the stair wizard who knew about the problem and was on the task: stairs, in two or three flights, with rust-proof hand rails on both sides. I would like to say he knows how many college students sleepily trudge up the hill after a movie in an effort to cut vital seconds off the time to the T station, perhaps the difference between a long empty train welcoming them home and shelling out the money...