Word: towers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This tall temple with the grotesque faces of conventionalized art at its four corners presents one entirely new feature in Maya architecture. This is a round cupola or small tower, which rises from the roof of the temple proper, itself set upon a pyramidal mound of five terraces ascended by a wide stairway. The cupola enhances the effect of height and grandeur...
Franklin Pierce Adams (in The Conning Tower...
...fascinating little twinkling rather nice ankles did I not like you much and much better", he suggested. To which the tall, lithe and lethal Armenian snorted over his Veuve Cliquot, or wasn't it Veuve Cliquot?--one never knows, does one as the birds on the ledges above the tower of St. Anne Who Was Awfully Good To Goodlooking Women have often chirped into the air of Mayfair on a bright and glimmerful day of sunshine and the sheene of nicest stockings on not the nicest ladies...
...handsomeness: it meets all demands with that superb adequacy which is the aptest test of architecture, an art in which inspiration must yield to practicability. An architect who was always inspired would be a failure. On one of those great occasions when Cass Gilbert was inspired, he saw a tower lift, in his mind, its pale indomitable pinnacle so beautifully that generations must inquire: "Who designed the Woolworth Building...
...discarded detail, the etcher's common resource. He used mass and shadow as a sculptor uses them, giving what is so hard to give in any two-dimensional art?the sense of a core, an inner heart of energy whose force, diffused through the etching, creates the thing seen, tower or bridge or buttress, as a piece of inevitable logic, the peremptory gesture of a hidden impulse. When he drew a crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital a thing as a comet...