Word: ancient
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...masterpieces are the side-by-side stadiums for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The structures are playful siblings, not identical twins, the forms clearly modern but vaguely ancient. What Tange has called "two huge comma shapes out of alignment" reminds us how satisfying form following function can be. Instead of the usual Rube Goldberg arena system of numbered entrances and exit ramps, the single wide mouths of the Olympic stadiums show themselves unequivocally...
...centuries, historians and scientists have puzzled over the calamitous plague of Athens, which decimated the ancient city-state between 430 and 427 B.C. As vividly described by the historian Thucydides, himself a survivor of the illness, the plague attacked suddenly, causing "violent heats" in the head, inflammation of the eyes and throat, "reddish, livid" skin, extreme diarrhea and high fever. Historians agree that the epidemic, which killed the great statesman Pericles, contributed to the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. But there is no agreement on its cause. Was it smallpox? Scarlet fever? Typhus? Measles...
...Ancient records indicate that the Chinese spotted five more supernovas in the next millennium, all in the Milky Way galaxy, and some of these starbursts were also noted by other cultures. The brilliant supernova of A.D. 1006 was seen and described by an Egyptian scribe named Ali ibn Ridwan and by European monks. The exploding star of 1181 was noted by the Japanese. But it is the supernova of July 4, 1054, which suddenly blazed in the constellation Taurus, near Orion, that is perhaps most significant to present-day astronomers. It exploded only about 6,000 light-years away...
...young wife a chance to flee the country without her husband's knowledge or approval. Jeffrey writes from San Francisco, saying he has fallen in love with another woman and wants a divorce. When Chloe and a contingent of friends from the hospital pay a visit to the ancient city of Persepolis, they are treated to a night of terror as armed bands struggle mysteriously in the darkness. Assembling the next morning, the tourists discover that one of their number, an Iranian doctor, has been shot and killed. As they get ready to leave, Chloe has an insight: "Great dramas...
...might be the pop-music equivalent of the excavation of ancient Troy, but the dig was just five miles from Broadway. In 1979 Henry Cohen, an executive for Warner Bros. Music, which owns publication rights to the songs, made a rough survey of the Secaucus material. "He didn't know its significance," Kimball recalls, "but he sent the list around. In 1982 he showed it to Donald Rose, a Gershwin scholar. Donald thought it was awesome and called me. In the first two boxes we found Gershwin's Pardon My English, which was presumed lost, and Cole Porter...