Search Details

Word: colosseums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...restoration experts, after preliminary checks, reported no significant damage to the Leaning Tower, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, St. Peter's Basilica and other ancient buildings in Rome and the Vatican...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthquake | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

...always be nurses to make beef tea, scullions to bargain for chickens, and governesses to scold the children; that the kitchen skimmers and casseroles and spice pots that he painted, over and over again, were in some important sense as durable as the Maison Carrée or the Colosseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sonneteer of a World at Rest | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Nearly a month after Giovanna's release, Daniel returns to Rome, yearning for his teen-age beloved. He showers Giovanna with bouquets of roses. Then he telephones her, singing Incontriamoci al Colosseo (Meet me at the Colosseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Days of Whine and Roses | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Meet me at the Colosseum, Cruise around on your motorcycle, And I will pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Days of Whine and Roses | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...Louisiana Superdome, the arena for the Super Bowl clash between Dallas and Denver. It has been called, variously and hyperbolically, the eighth wonder of the world, the most usable public facility ever designed, the structure that will make all other existing stadiums as obsolete as Rome's Colosseum. It is, claim Orleanians, "the domedest thing you ever saw," "the classiest sportin' house in the world" and "the Miracle on Poydras Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next