Word: cavernous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Visitors to the grotto-like Ocean Learning World experience the mysteries of the sea. Wending their way through a dank cavern, they are suddenly plunged into an aquatic research center lined with industrial-steel walls and exposed pipes. There they can park themselves in a yellow submarine once used for deep-sea exploration or watch wet-suited guides equipped with scuba gear investigate a simulated shipwreck in an 85,000-gal. tank...
...where the blast of hydraulics, the turning of engines and the beeping of hazard warnings melded into a mechanized symphony. To the left there was curious structure--a little booth attached to a thirty-foot long scale. The trucks rolled onto the scale and proceeded towards the monstrous cavern where all of the gathered trash was dumped...
...emerged onto the lot and passed a few "sanitation technicians," who offered me various puzzled stares and amused smirks. We reached the main opening into the deep, dark cavern that housed the treasure I had come to find. The opening in the wall rose 100 feet and at stretched at least 150 feet across. I felt like an ant entering my colony's hill. The building's misting system--a water and natural chemical mixture to keep the smell down--was turned on and a hazy aura emanated from within. Dapples of light coming through the massive glass skylights illuminated...
...they do most afternoons, the social refugees of Webster Groves find sanctuary underground--in Gene Clifford's basement, a dim cavern that reeks of cigarettes. Here, 16-year-old Gene and his friends have created a study hall-cum-social center. Posters of Pink Floyd, The X-Files and Tori Amos line the walls. Encyclopedias, dictionaries and classics fill the bookshelves. A computer with Internet access lights up the corner. The room is a cocoon, protected from the rest of the student body, from which they feel alienated. "Here I have ready access to all of my friends," says Gene...
...Velazquez's Las Meninas, which Sargent had copied in the Prado, sank very deep into his style and would produce curious effects tinged with melancholy, like the brilliant early portrait of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit--four slightly alienated-looking moppets, their white pinafores gleaming in a cavern of bourgeois shadow...