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This vigorous façade weaves through space like the interlacing illuminations in the Irish Book of Kells. Set on a rusticated granite base, the moated turret echoes ancient Celtic round castles scattered across the green countryside, recalls the Martello towers built to defend Ireland's coasts during Napoleonic times. Johansen even made studies of how soot streaks the concrete so that the walls would weather with character...
Banks, Base. The World Trade Center will scrape the sky 1,3531 ft. above an area where nearly every other building is topped with turret, lantern and steeple. The question is not whether it should be modern (it has to be) but whether it is the kind of modern that lives with its surroundings. Yamasaki has avoided the acres-of-glass look, has instead invested the two towers with traceries of stainless steel arches in his familiar style, around the base and again just below the gently beveled roof line. Some people may yet feel that it is too stark...
...Sert is not the only architect who mutiliates Harvard property. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott's Leverett Towers have occupied University land for a long while; Yamasaki's Engineering Sciences Building, a gleaming white, washer-dryer-like edifice, will soon open on Oxford Street; and an almost windowless, brick Medieval turret, the work of a firm from Houston, Texas, will eventually stand on Appian...
...German tank, hit by a shell, stops stunned, reels backward, writhes like a colossal metal insect in torment, the turret turning from side to side like a huge head and the tip of the long slender deadly gun glaring balefully in all directions like a big evil eye on a stilt...
Another patient, a ball-turret gunner, was trapped in the turret after his plane was shot up. Several of his bones were broken. Highly flammable oil began to seep into the turret. The boy screamed until the oil reached his lower lip. When the pilot ditched the plane, the ball turret was knocked off, the gunner somehow survived, but his mind was gone. Receiving these cases back in Ward 7, generally knowing little more about them than their names, ranks and serial numbers, Captain Newman approaches them with godly insight, and somehow Rosten manages to suggest with plausibility that...