Word: grillwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three 37-story apartment houses of elaborate balconies and grillwork that will house the bulk of the center's 6,000 resident families and will soar higher than any other apartments now in London...
...Biscayne Bay side of Miami Beach's island, the Pérez Jiménez retreat comes equipped with the standard swimming pool and cabanas; a lush lawn dotted with royal palms, hibiscus and ixora slopes down to the bay. New Orleans-style grillwork flanks the entrance. Low and relatively compact, the two-story white stucco house is built around a patio. Downstairs is a foyer lit with a mammoth bronze lantern, a drawing room paved with black and white Spanish tiles, a spacious living room with bleached mahogany walls stained silver-grey, a bar and a Formica-walled...
...courtyard before the 18th century Tauride Palace was filled with artillery, machine guns, field kitchens. All the gates in the high grillwork fence were bolted except a small wicket gate at the extreme left, where we entered, single file. Each ticket of admission was studied by guards newly arrived from Finland and the Kronstadt naval base. There was a second checkup at the towering entrance to the palace, this time by units of a Latvian rifle brigade famed for its loyalty to Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what...
...already stumbled on the secret of letting the line speak for itself. Set against monochrome backgrounds, it could float as joyously as a ribbon on a June breeze, take on the tension of coiled springs, jam up in anger, ascend in triumph or struggle behind the heavy, heavy black grillwork of despair. But for decades Hartung's new-found language spoke only to himself and a few fellow artists. Between 1922 and 1946 he sold only three paintings. Says he: "I don't know how I managed to survive...
...morning last week a stately B-36 flew on a steady course more than 40,000 feet above the Nevada wastelands. Miles ahead and 10,000 feet below, Sabre jets flashed back and forth across its path, laying down a grillwork of drifting smoke lines. Then the jets turned and sped out of danger. Two minutes later the big bomber released a bomb triggered to explode six miles in the air. There was an orange-white flash, then a fireball about a half-mile in diameter, a shock wave that danced to the ground 75 miles away, and a giant...