Word: verrazano
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...Robert Hughes praises Richard Serra's monumental "sculptures" that required "tanker technology" and steel-milled plates [ART, Oct. 19]. If Hughes wants to see large pieces of steel, put him on the subway to the outer reaches of New York harbor, where he can watch ships pass through the Verrazano Narrows. Modern art is the biggest practical joke in history, and Hughes has fallen for it. The true artists are the ironworkers and shipwrights who build today's floating monsters. GARRY JAFFE Chicago...
They discovered that the city has some unique and potentially lethal features. First, they realized that its major bridges, like the Verrazano Narrows and the George Washington, were so high they would experience the advance winds of an approaching hurricane several hours before winds of the same velocity were felt at ground level. These critical escape routes would have to be closed well before ground-level highways...
Harte said that the race, which began on the Staten Island side of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, started slowly...
...away from one another while they remain close. From a shop window piled high with big box radios, Carly Simon's voice sweeps into Fifth Avenue singing That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be. At the south end of the avenue, beyond Sunset Park, the Verrazano Bridge loops like a necklace in a black velvet case...
There's the blue line that is painted from the start to the finish, and of course the line of 19,000 runners that stretches over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge...