Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tower of Cala Piccola sits on a promontory 100 miles up the Tyrrhenian coast from Rome. Built by the Saracens in the 13th century, the tower has been converted into a bar and restaurant, surrounded by secluded cottages, each with its own view of the sea. Offering near-total privacy, the tower draws those who seek escape from it all (last year, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton). Rates begin...
...founder, Andre Citroen, a high-living production and promotion wizard who revamped France's sluggish artillery-shell plants in World War I, later introduced Henry Ford's mass-production techniques to begin his auto firm. He advertised with songs and skywriting, once had the Eiffel Tower strung with 250,000 lights that spelled CITROEN. But he spent even more lavishly on development and the Deauville gaming tables, lost control of the company to the more staid and highly secretive Tiremaker Michelin in 1934, and died heartbroken within a year...
...sorrows of middle-class life as any other story writer now at work. He makes many of his comments in metaphor. In The Vertical Ladder he describes a boy's slow ascent, in response to a dare, up a ladder on the outside of a six-story gas tower. The farther he climbs, the more terrified he becomes of the heaving ground below. When he reaches the top, he discovers that the last dozen rungs are missing. The dislocation he feels-suspended between earth and air, past and future-suggests those other climbers of various social structures who fear...
...week's end the New Lavender Hill Mob, as Fleet Street inevitably christened it, was still at large-probably, guessed Scotland Yard, holed up within metropolitan London. Unlike Alec Guinness' mob, which melted down its loot into solid-gold Eiffel Tower souvenirs and shipped them to Paris, the real-life quartet probably aimed to export its bullion to India, where gold fetches twice the world market price. "I see no reason why they should be caught," said one expert. "They have a market for it all ready. It's that kind...
...Manhattan, the landmark that gave Times Square its name-the 59-year-old, 26 story Times Tower-has been sold to the Allied Chemical Corp., which will skin it of all its bony character and reskin it with a well-ribbed gridiron, making it look like a hundred other Manhattan towers...