Word: cupola
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moving into the center pavilion, Gates shows off what will be the library. A mammoth carved wooden dome hangs just above the floor, waiting to be raised into the cupola. (I wonder: Does this grand chamber dispel my fear that he will relegate print to museum status? Or inadvertently confirm it?) He has hired a New York rare-books dealer to stock the library for him. His current reading is eclectic. "On a recent trip to Italy," he says, "I took the new Stalin biography, a book about Hewlett-Packard, Seven Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass...
...white fenced cupola--strikingly picturesque beside the postmodern architecture of the Carpenter Center--is perched atop the center...
Perched atop the Barker Center for the Humanities is a white fenced cupola, strikingly picturesque beside the postmodern architecture of the Carpenter Center. According to Randall, the new cupola echoes a feature of the original plans of the old Union. Randall, who also worked on the restoration of Matthews Hall, said renovating the Barker Center has been a fulfilling experience...
...sparkling laugh echo across the Quad; they are surfaces to sketch out thesis notes and to do take-home exams. One table, tipped on its side, becomes a backstop for a pitcher when Julian, our senior tutor, steps up to home plate and slugs a ball into the cupola on top of Briggs Hall...
...Palermo last week, some residents expressed jubilation, but most had nothing to say. "It's none of my business," grunted a young man on a motorcycle. "Knowing too much about that stuff is dangerous." It will remain so, even with Riina behind bars. At least five members of the Cupola are still at large. According to some sources, they long ago sketched out an agreement on how to divide the shepherd's fields and flock...