Word: basins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideology, that modernism somehow makes us free. Throughout the '50s and early '60s, the Biennale-that sprawl of art exhibitions devoted to the newest of the new, held every two years in a cluster of national pavilions beside the oily green waters of St. Mark's basin-was the symbol of that creed. In 1976 it is otherwise...
...flat and evil-looking fish, of the genus Torpedo lies quivering on a wet napkin. A wire extends from the napkin to a nearby basin of water. A man holds a finger in the basin and another finger in another basin. A second man holds one finger in the second basin and another finger in a third basin. And so on-until the eighth man, with his finger in the seventh basin, touches a wire to the back of the fish, a ray. Then, although none of the men is touching the fish or any other person, all of them...
...what makes the Red Line is the ride over the river, featuring an unobstructed view of the Boston skyline and the Charles basin, surpassing any of the river views of the New York system. The sights are especially good at night. Another important feature of the Red Line is the towering wooden escalator at South Station, one of the most humbling rides in the Boston area. While you're at South Station, walk out into Dewey Square and take a good look at the station itself--from a block and a half away, it's a very impressive sight...
...third entry in the race, fair Wellesley, did not fare very well at all. In fact the suburban crew, unused to the heavy traffic of the Charles River, could not even make it out of the basin, as its shell collided with a sailboat early...
Other, more dramatic changes were to come to the Charles River in the nineteenth century. A great slice of the basin at the river mouth was to be filled in. The process was set in motion when the city of Boston decided it needed to expand. First it filled in the large Mill Pond near what is now the North End. To replace the water power (used for turning the city's grist mills) produced by the dam around the Mill Pond, the Legislature approved in 1819 a new dam stretching from what is now Brighton across the Back...