Word: coliseums
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Shortly after the American Institute of Architects gathered in Kansas City last week for its annual convention, dozens of members slipped off to study the city's architectural showcase: the R. Crosby Kemper Jr. Memorial Arena, the 17,000-seat sports and concert coliseum that was the site of the 1976 Republican Convention. Designed by Helmut Jahn, of the Chicago firm of C.F. Murphy Associates, the sleek, futuristic building had several distinctive structural features. One was the sweep of interior space, 324 ft. long, without a single interior support. Another was the three huge exterior trusses, or interlocking networks...
...York Rangers also jumped out to a 1-0 lead in their semifinal series by stunning the host New York Islanders, 4-1, at the Nassau Coliseum...
...nightmare finally ended last Saturday night in the cheezy New Haven Coliseum with a 6-5 loss against Yale, and it all left you wondering whether the season as a whole had been a preview of mediocrity to come or some sort of devil's advocate to tradition...
...Clemson, wallowing near the bottom of the A.C.C. standings. Well, it was a mismatch -Clemson beat Duke last week by 21 points. Up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina clucked knowingly. A couple of weeks before, the Tarheels had taken their No. 2 national ranking to Clemson's Littlejohn Coliseum and been ambushed...
...came to pass in the New Haven Coliseum, the place where they filmed the movie "Slapshot." In a season where order and tradition had toppled, Saturday night's finale in front of 7460 partisan fans proved simultaneously fitting and cruel...