Word: aqueduct
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...where there's water, there's fire, at least when you live in the thirsty Southwest. Loder's 100 million-gal., 275-acre-ft. lake slurps its water from a Colorado River aqueduct; Loder pays about $15 per acre-ft. But the lake taps the canal that supplies farmers in the nearby Imperial Valley as well as the reservoirs of Los Angeles...
...Ruscha's gas stations, give the impression that they're glimpsed vividly and briefly from a passing vehicle. And an essentially traditional modernist like Richard Diebenkorn, during the figurative-landscape phase of his work in the '50s and early '60s - represented here by a slashing landscape called "Freeway and Aqueduct, 1957" - gave those landscapes a sense of rapid movement in deep space, and an imagery of roadworks, water conduits and ramps that you can't dissociate from...
...Ruscha's gas stations, give the impression that they're glimpsed vividly and briefly from a passing vehicle. And an essentially traditional modernist like Richard Diebenkorn, during the figurative-landscape phase of his work in the '50s and early '60s--represented here by a slashing landscape called Freeway and Aqueduct, 1957--gave those landscapes a sense of rapid movement in deep space, and an imagery of roadworks, water conduits and ramps that you can't dissociate from...
...hefty price tag, and the attitude of an impatient diva. Bought by the Japanese entrepreneur Fusao Sekiguchi for $4 million as a yearling, the prohibitive favorite enters the Derby on a four-race winning streak, including an overpowering four-length victory in the Wood Memorial April 15 at Aqueduct. Fusaichi Pegasus has been likened to Secretariat so often that the comparison has acquired the resonance of clich...
...richness of Aqueduct's Turf Club that enchanted me 15 years ago; it is the grittiness and dirt of the Suffolk Downs grandstand that captivates me today. The attendance on any given day is 95 percent male and the average age of patrons is 50, and it's the last place in Massachusetts, I'm convinced, where profanity and chain-smoking are not only tolerated but encouraged. No sentence spoken without using "motherfucker" can be taken seriously; no bettor without a Lucky Strike dangling from his mouth is respected. Some players are cool and rational and know how the pace...