Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gently under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully in the yard. And, of course, a couple of sunburned senior citizens of Miami Beach, he in a Hawaiian shirt and she in purple culottes, waiting their turn on the shuffleboard court...
...Heel spirit pervades the UNC campus. It's more than just the tangibles like the insignia apparel that dots the walkways, much more than the Veritas emblems up here in the Yard. It's everywhere--Tar Heel blue telephones, toilets, bathroom tile, awnings, bleachers, bumper stickers, and even the Tar Hell blue walls of the Carmichael Auditorium...
...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...
...houses are whitewashed and highlighted in brilliant colors. The main sights are the cathedral, the Casa de Pilatos and the Alcazar; in each, you can see the upheavals the church, nobility, and military underwent from the time of the Moors through the 18th century. The Plaza de Espana, a tile masterpiece, is a 19th-century nightmare vision of Moorish construction...
Correspondent Steven Holmes, a native New Yorker, learned that a city slicker faces a language barrier in Benton County, Iowa. Says he: "When a farmer told me it cost him $10,000 to tile, I thought he was talking about his kitchen. He meant field drainage tiles." After several companies declined to discuss a possible reduction in Export-Import Bank funding, Correspondent Patricia Delaney approached J.I. Case, a construction-equipment manufacturer in her native Racine, Wis. "When Case executives tried to refuse, I asked them how they could turn down a request from a home-town girl," says Delaney...