Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those Who Love, Stone...
...headhunters in northern Luzon to transvestite Manila bini boys, but the bulk of them are hungry, hard-scrabbling peasants who live in the barrios of the towns and cities. Some scavenge metal from the firing ranges of U.S. bases; others cap bottles of San Miguel beer in the big stone brewery near Manila Harbor. Beneath the stately palms of Roxas Boulevard in downtown Manila, the sons of rich Filipino businessmen race their Fords past gaudy jeepneys (freelance taxis). Lovely women mingle on the streets of Manila and Olongapo, Cagayan and Baguio with horny-handed housewives and tawdry broads...
...surfaced brick-to build his university. Mindful that 28,500 students will soon swarm its halls, he barred automobiles from the campus in favor of elevated pedestrian expressways that connect the actual city outside with the academic core of the college. The crisp, die-straight expressways are bordered by stone bollards and giant chains. From the four points of the compass, these airborne paths lead to a 300-ft. by 450-ft. elevated slab, a great, raised court that has become the students' principal rendezvous...
...water," says the architect. "The ripples are more intense in the center and broaden as the waves move out." From lawn chairs to the 500-ft. truss that is the lintel of the laboratory building, the campus explodes in scale. Even the bricks on the walls and scattered decorative stone bases double in size to harmonize with larger facades. "It's an old Renaissance trick," explains Netsch...
Geometry in the form of polygons is also the rule for Puerto Rico's only art museum. The island commonwealth, famed for frolic, sun and sugar, last week celebrated the opening of a $2,000,000 museum in Ponce, designed by Edward Durell Stone and almost entirely bankrolled by Industrialist Luis Ferré, who is a three-time loser in the island's gubernatorial elections. Seven skylighted interior galleries are hexagonal, juxtaposing art works that can be scanned in a single twirl...