Word: stucco
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...president walks softly, his black sneakers squishing along the concrete path between lilies and the white stucco walls of the presidential mansion. As he points out a Ju Ming sculpture he admires and some work he's had done to the house, his gestures are compact, as if his arms automatically seek the shortest distance between repose and extension. His bearing is quiet, but always lurking is the authority, both of his formidable intellect and his high office. To his credit, he wears his achievements as easily as his blue oxford shirt. In these moments, as he shows...
...white stucco four-story apartment building on the rocky, windswept Miura coast is called the Blue Sea. The palm tree in front is lashed down with ropes to keep it from blowing over. But the views of the sailboat marina and rugged coastline are spectacular. It's a tony area: Japan's best-known actor of the 1960s, Toshiro Mifune, lived a few hundred meters down the coast until he died a few years ago. It takes no more than 60 seconds to walk from the front lobby of the Blue Sea to the spot where Lucie's remains were...
...what is now the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City reveals the way the town's elite lived. Two-story houses, built around stone-paved inner courts, had separate baths for regular and ritual cleansing. Floors boasted fine mosaics; on the walls were frescoes or trompe l'oeil stucco that mimicked masonry. Archaeologists have uncovered finely crafted glass goblets and delicate perfume flasks. Experts are divided as to whether such prosperity was shared. Says Reich: "There weren't any real poor people in Jerusalem then. There were the rich and the less rich." Argues Fabian Udoh, professor of liberal...
...sprawling Los Angeles Unified School District, where nearly half of the 711,000 students speak limited English, Hobart, a squat stucco campus surrounded by a chain-link fence, serves 2,200 children. More than three-quarters are Latino, nearly a fifth are Korean--and 92% are poor enough to qualify for free lunch. A third of Hobart's teachers lack certification. A few weeks ago, the school was locked down at midday when a taxi driver was shot nearby...
Joseph and Nereciana reinhabited a familial plot in Rwankogoto and began the process of building their dirt-floor, four-room hut from bamboo, reeds and mud. The house, perched on a hillside overlooking a fertile valley, catches morning sun and stores the warmth all day within its thick stucco walls. They built a thatched-roof outhouse, a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop. They cleared four acres of farmland and sowed their first crop: manioc, beans, peanuts, pineapples and sweet potatoes. Her sisters lent Nereciana pots and empty jerricans that she filled with bananas, yeast and hops to ferment banana...