Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spiegel hired Architect Edward Stone (TIME cover, March 31, 1958) to build a glossy Park Avenue duplex penthouse. With the help of his wife Maria, Stone turned the place into a never-never land of white marble, pink silk, Turkish lamps and other assorted fixtures of Cinemascopic proportions. The sunken marble tub is merely outsize; the master's bed looks roughly like a polo field covered in cardinal red velvet. Like all dedicated cinemagnates, Spiegel has his own home-projection facilities. The wide screen is hidden behind curtains. When he wants to put on a private screening, Spiegel presses...
...will be the simplest skyscraper statement in New York," a "vertical leap of masonry and glass." In a "return to solid, massive strength," the structure will be made of granite-clad reinforced concrete instead of structural steel, rising without a break in line from the green-granite faced, sunken plaza surrounding it. Triangular columns carrying wiring, heating and air ducts will rise in the tower's four faces, breaking up the expanse of shimmering glass that gives a cellophane-wrapped look to much that is modern...
...building's site, at West 52nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, is only two blocks from NBC's 70-story skyscraper in Rockefeller Center. Thus a main goal of the architecture is to make CBS look distinguished in comparison to its lofty rival. The sunken plaza that consumes almost half the space of the tract not only singles the building out but draws the eye downward before it turns upward, adding to the effect of rise...
From the golden sands of its Mediterranean shore to the olive groves and pine trees of its eastern hills, the most characteristic feature of Beirut's skyline is the apartment house. Row upon row of multistoried slabs stand in brightly colored ranks, graced by rooftop gardens, sunken black marble bathtubs with solid gold taps, and airy, glass-walled rooms that look out on full-sailed dhows plying the routes once used by Phoenician triremes. Only trouble is that thousands of the apartments are empty...
...short, fringelike beard, much like Christ's. St. Paul has a large bald head, a dark, scraggly, pointed beard, an aquiline nose and "a lively penetrating gaze." St. Philip wears no beard but has dark, curly hair receding toward baldness. St. Luke has a thin mustache, sunken cheeks, a sparse, round beard, and a bald spot in the midst of brown wavy hair...