Word: atop
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...marathon route. All three vehicles will be powered by electricity, since exhaust fumes might bother the athletes. To follow the rowers and canoeists without swamping them in the wake of an ordinary boat, the network constructed two nearly wakeless craft: both consist of 10-ft.-high platforms mounted atop a pair of racing shells...
...photo opportunities were substantive: President Reagan aboard a skipjack on Chesapeake Bay; a windblown Reagan atop an observation tower at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge; Reagan touring Mammoth Cave National Park, posing amid the stalactites in the world's most extensive cave system. Reagan was again embarked on one of his "theme" weeks, this one designed, somewhat awkwardly, to create an image as a champion of environmental concerns. Yet even a top aide admitted that the conservationist crusade "was a little thin," and environmentalists howled that it was also loose with the truth...
Laura Farabough's Nightfire, also a California group, provides another low, but without style. Previous productions of this Sausalito company have included Locker Room, which took place in a high school locker room, with the audience seated atop the lockers, and Surface Tension, a water work that toured swimming pools up and down the West Coast. For the festival, Farabough has created another aqueous drama, Liquid Distance/ Timed Approach, which she has staged, so to speak, in the swimming pool of the Beverly Hills High School. Unfortunately, the chlorinated blue water is clearer than her plot, which covers everything...
...second mural is drawn from his experiences with the railroad. While he was building a dam in Arizona, a horse and carriage he was driving panicked atop the dam and started falling down the slope. "As he was falling he prayed to God to see his parents again and then he hit a boulder which stopped his fall. He felt that it was God that saved him," Valtierra relates. The vivid blue and grey and white mural depicts his grandfather's fall...
...first gray and misty light, the sea suddenly appeared full of ships, some 5,000 vessels of every variety, and from the giant battleships came a deafening barrage. The Texas and Arkansas trained their 14-in. guns on German artillery batteries atop the cliffs towering over Omaha Beach; the Nevada and three cruisers pounded nearby Utah Beach. Twelve miles offshore, thousands of infantrymen scrambled down sheets of netting into the boxlike landing craft that began chugging toward the heavily mined and barricaded shore. Aboard the flagship Augusta, General Bradley stood with ears plugged by cotton and watched through binoculars...