Maria showed up occasionally, flitting around the house, thrusting piles of towels and bedsheets in my hands, patting the boys' heads maternally with cries of "bimbi".
Only the third single-family home built by Aravena, the 3,000-square-foot Ochoquebradas house thrusts out over the edge of a rocky, lichen-stained bluff.
Some also say that the Israeli occupation of Orient House needlessly thrust to the fore the ever-sensitive issue of Jerusalem's ultimate fate, while strengthening Mr. Arafat's hand in his demands for international observers to ride to the Palestinian rescue.
Judge Leonard B. Sand's decision that suburban Yonkers, N.Y., should integrate its housing has thrust the quiet-spoken federal jurist into the center of a controversy so bitter that his country house has been picketed and he has been subject to a barrage of angry phone calls and derogatory public statements.
HILDALE, Utah, April 19 — Thousands of polygamists are engaged in a highly unusual standoff here over property taxes that could ultimately cost them their houses or thrust them into a mainstream America they fear and despise.
The man has grown old alongside the art-house; its thrusting young buck turned jaundiced emperor.
At some houses, he thrusts a palm computer in the door to show a 16-second video clip of a steelworker talking about losing his job.
As I was wheeling my tools away from the house, the daughter thrust an old wooden bushel basket at me. "Take this," she said.
Lesbian coming-of-age musicals aren't exactly a staple of the commercial theater, and Circle in the Square is a notoriously challenging house, with its thrust stage setting up all kinds of in-the-round sightline traps.
For a few hours last Sunday afternoon, an $8 ticket was all it took to enjoy this music with a view, along with the eclectic Kaufman art collection--including Hopi kachina dolls, a brass horse by Mexico's Sergio Bustamente and a bush-like cluster of candles--which made the airy house with its thrust ceilings seem like a private gallery.
