Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time he returns from Acapulco's sun next week, Henry Kissinger should have a fully operational office awaiting him. Surrounded by crates loaded with personal papers, the former Secretary of State's six aides are setting up shop in a corner suite atop a downtown Washington office building. The space was made available by Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies. Kissinger will lecture at Georgetown for six months at a salary of about...
...Scandal than of the printouts of a computer randomly permutating a basic word pattern. In PlayBeckett gives us the tried but true triangle of husband, wife and mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme of emptiness runs through both of these plays, which seem to be devoid of images but which, like the publicity poster, are enormously suggestive. Nancy Krieger has skillfully realized the implicit imagery of Beckett's plays in an intellectually engaging if emotionally sterile production...
...small room, with little sunlight and tight around the collar. The speaker's table was engulfed by a grotesque blob of lenses and flesh and cigars and cameras and elbows and underarms. In the middle of the frantic enterprise she appeared. Like a jelly donut atop an anthill. They swarmed...
...shore. Worse, both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers were frozen solid in long stretches. Some 300 barges and more than 50 tugs were locked in the 181-mile leg of the Mississippi between Cairo, Ill., and St. Louis. A few steel barges, weighing some 750 tons each, were shoved atop the sturdy ice like so many giant hockey pucks. Others were crushed by converging packs of ice. Even barges able to move were collecting ice barnacles up to 6 ft. thick on their bottoms. "That makes one hellacious load to push," said a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official...
...dressed in the majesty of centuries," wrote Plutarch, having gazed on the Acropolis above Athens. "It contains a living and incorruptible breath, a spirit impervious to age." Ever since the superb temple of the Parthenon was built atop the Acropolis in the 5th century B.C., it has survived the mutations of history. Conquering Romans turned the Parthenon into a brothel; Christians made it an Orthodox church; the Turks converted it to a mosque, and then used it as a powder magazine-which exploded when hit by Venetian artillery in 1687. But nothing in the Parthenon's history has equaled...