Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...there are drawbacks. In New York City, the Midtown Tennis Club has used a bubble over its rooftop courts for three years, but it is now so dirty that it no longer lets in much light. There are air-pressure problems with some bubbles−now and then a tennis player will complain of popping ears. Acoustics are often eccentric. A hard-hit volley, for example, sometimes will sound like a battery of French 75s. Heating−or cooling−;the bubbles is difficult. The sun has a way of turning the structures into hothouses, while the cold winds...
...would recommend it to no one else." Just as well, because he cooks mostly on an open hearth where roasts turn on a spit, meat and fish are grilled, and vegetables bake buried in the hot ashes. Furthermore, he adds, "from time to time I climb to the rooftop and suspend a marinated rolled boar's belly or other delicacy in the chimney to be smoked." He is not really a masochist. The reason for this laborious approach is that the techniques of French cooking were perfected with just such equipment; and for Olney, to know the source...
...strange places that if the IRT subway line could be held responsible and sued it would go bankrupt faster than the Pennsylvania Central. And finally, if she gets really lucky, like the five-year-old daughter of a minister I once knew, she may get dragged up to the rooftop of some apartment building and raped...
...tension has long been commonplace. But in 1970, there is a new and special kind of peril; in his patrol car or on the sidewalk, the policeman knows that at any moment a sniper's rifle may be trained on him from an unlit alley or a nearby rooftop. Thus far this year, 16 police officers have been killed in unprovoked attacks, more than double the FBI-computed total for all of 1969 and nearly four times the annual average for the past ten years. At least 57 have died in the line of duty so far this year...
Historians might say that the Boston Irish left their pots of gold in Gloccamorra, along with their leprechauns. But at least Manuel Crisostomo's "Neon Rainbow" mobilizes the visual magic contained in industrial technology. It will are over a Back Bay rooftop adjacent to Storrow Drive, according to the artist...