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...entrance floor aims to give the visitor a coup de theatre, and it does. After a low entranceway the space soars, thanks to a circular well that rises clear through the building and finishes in the slanting oculus 130 ft. above. It transmits enough light down through the building for Botta to use a dramatic chiaroscuro of materials without sinking the interior in gloom-a striped floor of black and gray granite, for example...
...Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy (along with the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) and begun to believe he was marked for death -- correctly so. One conspirator distracted his bodyguards' attention; another pulled a shotgun trigger, creating, in the words of writer Marshall Frady, "a perfectly circular seven-inch pattern of holes over his heart." For insurance, the killers shot him again with the shotgun and pistols...
...pathway through it isn't linear like in an English garden, there's no logical process from beginning to end. That's how my music is, too--more circular," he said...
began with an indication of the circular evolution of musical audiences. In the halls of the eighteenth century, which catered to aristocrats whose particular interest was not necessarily the music, there was no sense in a conductor or concert master waiting for silence: the orchestra simply played--preferably loudly at first--to quiet the crowd. It is partly for this reason that most symphonies from the classical begin with a forte. When Haitink took the stage, the noise from the crowd of the elderly and well-to-do did not diminish. Thus, he dove straight into the cataclysmic opening bars...
Protons and anti-protons were smashed against each other at high speeds in the four-mile -long underground circular tunnel of the accelerator, and top quarks were blasted out from the collisions...