Word: stonework
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...trains and ferries are packed with people. Suddenly the earth begins to tremble and sway, accompanied by a roar that some people liken to the sound of a hundred freight trains. Huge cracks open in streets and sidewalks. Shaken loose by the violent vibrations, tons of glass and ornamental stonework tumble onto the streets, crushing pedestrians and automobiles. Many older buildings collapse completely. Chinatown's famed Grant Street becomes a death...
...DRAWING of York Minister on the wall of Kiely's Widener office may have more than decorative value to its owner. The cathedral is one of the most impressive reminders of Catholic England, and the site of some of the best religious stonework of the Middle Ages. A director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Center, Kiely spent his sabbatical last year at Cambridge on a Prize Fellowship from the Society for Religion in Higher Education that allowed him to finish his second book and to continue his reading of religious literature. "I'm interested in the ways different writers have...
...uncovered a 12-ft.-high tunnel that had been sealed since Biblical times. At its other end, 100 ft. away, Yadin saw water sparkling in the torchlights. Instead of depending on springs, Ahab's engineers had dug deep to tap the natural ground water reservoir. The stonework shaft's 10-ft-wide stairways sloped gently down to the tunnel mouth and were roomy enough, Yadin believes, to accommodate two columns of donkeys-one carrying water jars up from the bottom, the other returning with empty jars...
...Sand Dunes at Sunrise, Death Valley" (1954), then surrealism is nature and Adams is only its faithful scribe. We must look to his choice of the instant in portraiture or in an urban world to find the mind of the artist shaping its material. The regularity of the natural stonework in "Grand Canvon" is like the automated regularity of the "San Francisco Bay Bridge from Yerbe Buen Island" (1953). Adams chooses to portray the bridge in a straightaway perspective with its vanishing point squarely centered: Beetle-like automobiles march toward infinity in formation, as do the landscapes achieve an effect...
...building a thin ''membrane" dam around the temple. When muddy Nile water rises outside, pressure will be balanced as the space that the dam encloses will be filled to the same height with clear, filtered water treated so that it will not damage the temple's stonework. Visitors would be able to admire the temple from submerged portholes reached by elevators. MacQuitty estimates that his scheme will cost only $14 million, including the elevators and water-treatment plant. Another stop gap British scheme suggests covering the temple with a hollow pyramid sealed to keep out the water...