Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both cities, the flames started in lowlands and raced up steep hills to devour homes on the high ground, many valued at $200,000 or more. Baldwin Hills is an affluent, predominantly black neighborhood, sometimes called "the black Beverly Hills." Its houses are mainly sprawling stucco structures or split-level residences less than 35 years old. When the flames came, they fed voraciously off the wood-shingled, bone-dry roofs. Fireballs danced from rooftop to rooftop, driven by the winds and creating fire-storm drafts of their...
...Minh City in 1985 is physically little different from Saigon in 1975, just as Hanoi is much as the French left it in 1954. Both cities are full of pastel stucco and the decaying architectural flourishes of colonial temps perdu. In Hanoi, which shows surprisingly few signs of the U.S. bombing, water buffalo pull carts down boulevards lined with tamarind trees. There are few automobiles; as elsewhere in Asia, the bicycle is ubiquitous...
...painting is shaped like the top of a piano, but at first glance you can tell that it isn't a piano. Hang so that the point faces down, the top fifth is a black stucco-like strip. The bottom, a triangle, is a mixture of grey, green and purple; all of which may add up to an upside-down sail, or as the artist. John Ahr '86 says, a type of a peepshow...
...Munich suburb of Gauting last week, two members of West Germany's Red Army Faction shot and killed Ernst Zimmermann, 55, chief executive of MTU, a major West German engine manufacturer and well-known defense contractor. Posing as messengers, a young German couple gained entrance to Zimmermann's white stucco home, forced his wife to lie on the floor and took Zimmermann into another room, where they shot him in the head with a revolver. Zimmermann died twelve hours later. It was the second murder by European terrorists in eight days. On Jan. 25, a shadowy French group called Action...
...problem: one of those hopeless disaster areas known as a ghetto, an inner city, a slum. This particular one, on the northwest side of Fort Lauderdale, bore the cheerful name of Citrus Park, but it was a sullen collection of two dozen four-family stucco houses, dilapidated, garbage-strewn, crime-ridden...