Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CARIBBEAN. At night, torches blaze in the breeze, couples congregate at thatched-roof tables, while brown-skinned babes in tighter-than-skin pants gyrate to the hot blasts and calypso beat of bongo drums and steel bands. There is no place to dance, but the itchy-footed shake or shuffle outside on the sidewalk. It's better not to mention the food, but there is a $3 minimum after...
Convention Upside Down. In his return to glass and steel, Saarinen brought new technology with him. Most of the windows are made of laminated mirror glass that reflects 52.3% of sun heat and 62% of light, eliminating the need for curtains inside. The steel itself is a novel alloy called Cor-ten,* which rusts a dense protective coat onto itself -then stops, does not flake, and need never be painted. Although a half-million railroad cars have been made of it since 1933, Saarinen was the first to build with the steel that must rust...
...architect who liked to turn convention upside down, Saarinen made people go downstairs, from the fourth-floor main entrance at one end of the building, to the executive offices. Secretaries, instead of being tucked away in dark inner cubicles, were given window seats. Treetops wave just outside the horizontal steel louvers, which will eventually rust to a cinnamon dark ness. Every office has its own thermostat, and the whole building has push button telephones...
...trade name contracted from "corrosion-tensile." It differs from plain carbon steel in its high copper content...
After eleven years of extensive study. Judy gave up the piano in favor of a battered steel guitar that her father had given her, soon was haunting Denver's folk dens. "Folk music became my contact with other human beings," she says, "a way of saying what I think is happening inside their souls. What's happening in the music now is what happened in the Germany of Weill and Brecht-this outcry, this fury, this screaming 'It's exciting! It's exciting!' '' Like the song that she has established...