Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erieview, the city's downtown core, is mottled with make-do parking lots; even the three-year-old federal building, a 30-story tower overlooking the polluted surf of Lake Erie, is already scabrous with peeling plastic. The city is having to pay $50,000 a month in interest costs on loans for its Erieview project alone. Last January, in exasperation, HUD Secretary Robert Weaver cut off $10 million in renewal funds...
...When Harry died at 48 four months ago, his many friends at Miles discussed what sort of tribute to pay him. "Harry was not the kind of guy you sent flowers to," recalls Trustee Mrs. David Roberts III. "So I said, 'Let's fix up the bell tower and name it for him instead.' Harry always kidded us about how bad it looks...
Apostles' Bells. Gibberd hit upon the idea of placing a tower directly over the altar's baldachin (or canopy) and using it to light the cathedral because "it's all part of the same thing." To be sure, the idea of having a 2,000-ton tower suspended over space presented structural problems, but these, as Gibberd put it, can be solved "if you get a lot of chaps together with some real know-how." Prestressed concrete was used for the 16 radial buttresses, while the roof was prefabricated from huge slabs of concrete hauled into place...
...cathedral's electrically operated bells, named for the apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are separately housed in the 90-ft, freestanding bell tower that looms at the entrance. "I congratulate the architect on the excellence of his design," said Cardinal Heenan as the bells pealed on Whitsunday. "He spoke in a new language, but has not used any tricks which would embarrass those who will come later. This is authentic art, and it will be admired so long as men cherish beauty...
...mate, a 12-ft.-tall black fan, wilts in mid-air beneath the space capsules at the top of Expo 67's U.S. pavilion); 3) platters bearing real Jell-O and real marzipan molds of the artist's face, cast thrice weekly by Manhattan's Tower Suite restaurant; 4) a collage made out of old cigarette butts; 5) sketches and models for "proposed colossal monuments," including a 75-ft.-high wing nut for engineering-happy Stockholm, and a brobdingnagian girl's thigh for hem-hoisting London...