Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through. As Americans visit their own major cities in this Bicentennial season, they are being surprised, delighted, heartened and even awed by what they see. There is hardly a downtown that is not offering a glittering new face, a startling new profile. In Atlanta, a round 723-ft. tower soars like a silver silo above the Georgia heartland. In Los Angeles, the flat megalopolis that was supposed to spread ever outward, new towers sprout like asparagus. Windswept Oklahoma City, a dramatic vertical statement in the horizontal world of the Western plains, strikes the eye like a mini-Manhattan. Denver...
Symbolic of the times is the change in the skyscraper itself. During the 1960s, the standard tower looked like a shoebox set on end. Now this sleek but rarely stimulating slab is out of style. Replacing it is a completely new series of high-rise shapes and configurations: ribbed, faceted, angled, notched and cylindrical. Like them or not, they create a skyline full of visual excitement...
Pinwheeling Setbacks. Every big city is getting its share of the new towers. Chicago, the birthplace of the skyscraper, has set the pace. It has tapering buildings, round ones and free forms; dozens have been completed in the '70s. Over them all broods the 110-story Sears Tower, with its pinwheeling arrangement of setbacks. In San Francisco, the 48-story Transamerica building looks like a cross between an oil derrick and the Pyramid of Cheops. The latest statement-if not the last word-is New York's: its shimmering 34-story One United Nations Plaza, designed by Architects...
...poetry of his similes ("I was as out of place as a tarantula on a wedding cake"), his metaphors ("the minutes went by on tip toe with their fingers to their lips"), his fadeouts ("What did it matter where you lay ... in a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep") - indicated a mind larger than the ghetto of the detective story in which it was trapped...
...Sing under the Occupation) was an 80-minute documentary on the good life in Paris under Nazi rule in 1940-44. Interspersed among shots of Chevalier mugging and clowning were newsreels of Wehrmacht troops marching up the Champs-Elysées, the swastika fluttering on the Eiffel Tower, and German soldiers ogling nudes at the Lido nightclub. Even grimmer was the shot of the roundup of 13,000 Jews at the Velodrome d'Hiver for deportation to Nazi death camps...