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Several pieces of Cambridge Fire Department equipment fought the blaze to the delight of dozens of onlookers. Bystanders in the Quincy yard ran from showers of glass as firemen broke out windows in D-entry stairway and tossed damaged furniture from the second story windows. The crowd hissed a resident of the Quincy tower who played "Light My Fire" on his stereo until the police...
...structure (cost: $3,500,000) is indeed a dramatic addition to Syracuse's downtown Community Plaza. Its four main galleries loom theatrically over the concrete-paved concourse. Inside, visitors pass through a spacious 35-ft.-high central court, then climb to the galleries on a swirling, circular stairway. They can promenade from one gallery to the next without descending, thanks to glass-curtained, connecting bridges that overlook both court and outdoor plaza. Pei believes that such bridges give a "change of pace" between exhibition rooms. "Besides," he adds, "in a museum your eyes need a rest...
NEIL SEDAKA'S credentials hardly need airing. With a style closely related to Pitney's Sedaka has created a sound--from The Diary through Carol, Little Devil, Stairway to Heaven, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen, World Through A Tear--that inevitably blends his whole work into a single medley with scarcely detectable demarcations...
...Judd's boxes, the possibilities are endless. What is a box, they say, if not a coffin, a house, a treasure chest? As for that series of boxes climbing up the wall, what is it but a machine-produced, 20th century revision of a medieval illuminator's stairway to paradise...
Even pets were affected. Said a dachshund-laden woman on one stairway: "I don't dare let him climb. They got discs, you know." In some buildings, striking service employees-among the few New York workers who actually have a sense of service-winked at the labor laws and carried their favorite tenants up in the elevators anyway. Many apartment-based professional men, forced to close their offices, threatened to sue striking Local 32B and/or the landlords for their losses. On the other hand, a psychiatrist on Central Park West kept up his thriving practice by couching his patients...