Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facade functions as a sunbreak and keeps the interior cool without cumbersome draperies. The house is built on seven levels that form a series of "living platforms," the lowest being a utility room, while the uppermost is a rooftop lookout-a modern version of the widow's walk. Rudolph, chairman of the department of architecture of Yale and designer of its new all-concrete, Art and Architecture Building, had originally specified poured concrete for the Milam family, but smooth-cast sand-colored concrete blocks for walls turned out to cost only half as much: $88,000. While...
...living man inside it, and that man was taking a considerable chance. If a sudden leak had developed at 130,000 ft., the pressure inside would have fallen quickly to the point where human blood boils and death is almost instantaneous. But all went well, and the man could walk on a treadmill and use his arms with reasonable ease...
Pick up your left foot, pick up your right, Walk away from every care...
Rolling Pastures. He started to work toward "simplification and amplification" of his art, began his important projects La Montague and Dynamo Mother with a naturalistic sculpture and countless drawings. Of a work called Woman, he wrote: "As a vision sculptural, she began to move, vigorously, robustly, walking, alert, lightly, radiating sex and soul." Of La Montagne, he wrote: "Mountains neither jump nor walk, but have fertile rolling pastures, broad and soft as fecund breasts...
Most champion women skiers cut a fairly sturdy figure in stretch pants. It is a shame, of course. But a girl who grows up in the Alps is likely to start skiing as soon as she can walk, and by the time she is ready for the Olympics, she bulges with muscles. Europeans have learned to live with such disappointments; they have even learned to expect them. So imagine their surprise last week when Europe's best got trounced by a slim-ankled snow bunny from Oregon who is undeniably a girl...