Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunderous rumble came from up the valley, where, three miles distant and 1,690 ft. above them, the Tera River, swollen by a fortnight of rain, was held in check by a stone and concrete dam built two years ago. The only explanation of the now deafening thunder was that the dam had burst. Electrician Rey scrambled up the church tower, began ringing the bell in alarm. Father Plácido started waking his neighbors. Some few fled with him across the only bridge and climbed the opposite hillside. Others raced to the church tower or to high ground...
...wall of water, with the weight of 230 million cu. ft. behind it, came surging down the narrow ravine, smashed into the village in a wave 20 ft. high. The stone bridge was swept away. The church was cut in two, and only the tower remained standing. All but 25 of the town's 150 houses were wiped...
...current incarnation, Twelfth Night takes place on and in front of an airy outdoor platform, half ruin and half arbor, with stone pillars in the center and wooden frames trimmed with leaves on the sides. Though there is no scene which does not seem entirely at home in this environment, its air of almost-sombreness has the effect of bringing the low comedy scenes into closer accord with the rest of the play than Shakespeare probably intended...
...Finest Architect." Never before had the U.S. Government gone to such length to impress a foreign country with an embassy. As architect, it hired Edward Stone (TIME Cover, March 31 ), designer of the American Pavilion at the Brussels Fair. The building was dubbed the Taj Maria* for Stone's wife ("Mr. Stone is the finest architect in the world," says she), and the embassy does capture much of the magnificence of an ancient Indian taj. As in the temples and palaces of old, most of the work was done by hand, each finished piece transported by Indian artisans from...
...spinster who has never suspected the existence of primeval, serpentine masculinity. A Summer for the Dead features a lusty gal who is rejected by a man dead from the waist down and settles for one who is only dead from the neck up-totally blind and nearly stone-deaf...