Everybody knew his story: stacking groceries at the Hy-Vee back in Iowa for $5.50 an hour, sometimes tossing a roll of toilet paper to a co-worker, just to keep the arm limber.
I remember at times having fifteen or twenty copies of my newest story stacked on the table in front of me, each with an accompanying cover letter and envelope addressed to various magazines, knowing in my heart that at least ONE would want to publish my work.
People lined up for hours to climb through a six-story stack of Dutch landscapes, including a forest, concrete dunes for purifying water and on top a "polder landscape," reclaimed land powered by windmills and irrigated with collected rainwater.
After more than a month of diagnostic tests and the pumping of tens of thousands of barrels of drilling fluids — and everything from golf balls to shards of rubber — into the broken blowout preventer, engineers are still debating about what they think may be the inner contours of the five-story stack of pipes and how to best contain its leaking gashes.
And he gives us Paris in the mid-'60s, when he and other impecunious writers camped out at "Paris's premier English-language booksleepingsleeping among the second-story stacks and smoking some primo kef, bought from Algerian hustlers.
Here's how the museum's Web site describes the experience: "This exhibit's robotic, three-story stacking system will allow visitors to select one of these 55 vehicles for closer viewing and then watch as it moves from its storage slot onto a custom turntable.
The sand-dominated members include sheetflood deposits and multi-story stacked channel sandbodies (Goldsmith et al. 1995; McKie and Audretsch 2005), whereas the mud-dominated members include a variation of non-marine, basin-wide floodplain and playa lake deposits.
The lower floors on the south side of the building feature four three-story stacked atrias.
'Day of the Tentacle' was just this three-part mansion -- three stories stacked up like a Rubik's Cube.
He's got stories stacked on top of stories, and is one of the most knowledgeable human beings in the entire universe.
As in the original, the modern story is stacked with antique contraptions, like a printing press and a pair of competing steam trains.
