Word: cupolaed
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...cracked open. In one of these houses lived a crazy old lady of the Capote/Faulkner stamp, her house full of wilted memories and flowers, whose special craziness was keeping turtles, five or six dime-store turtles in crystalline plastic dishes. She lived in a large place with a cupola and wouldn't let anyone in, even the local landmarks society who wanted to help preserve the house from destruction and her from eviction...
...circular upper hall with its white cupola is bathed in electric light, and from the depths of the station, along two parallel escalators, Muscovites rise to meet us in serried ranks. They all seem to look at me as if expecting me to shout at least one word of truth. Why am I silent? ... Because these Muscovites standing on the escalator stairs are not numerous enough; my cry would be heard by 200, perhaps 400 people. But what about my 200,000,000 compatriots? I have a vague premonition that one day I will scream out to all those...
...Peter's Basilica in Rome, the words are inscribed in gold in the cupola, the key argument that the papacy was founded by Jesus himself when he made Peter the head of his church. But does that long-contested biblical verse in fact mean what Roman Catholics traditionally take it to mean? Was Peter the first Pope? Are his successors the ultimate earthly authority in Christendom? In a new study, Peter in the New Testament, an investigative group of eleven Roman Catholic, Lutheran and other Protestant scripture experts issue a cautious demurrer. The scholars agree that the controversial passage...
...Suddenly the village cascades into view. The flat-roofed houses of mud and stone climb up the walls of a dead-end canyon of brown rock. Nestled in a crevice is the dome of a small convent, and high above, on the crest of the ravine, looms the Byzantine cupola of a monastery that, according to its lone priest, is 1,700 years old. Below is a patchwork of tiny fields where villagers grow corn, tomatoes and grapes...
...project for the Great Hall in Berlin, with its 1,000-ft.-high dome (16 times the volume of Michelangelo's cupola on St. Peter's) may look to a sophisticated eye like a cross between a white elephant and a cookie cutter. But had it been built, the effect on the 150,000 human ants it was designed to hold would have been stupendous: this would have been not only the largest building in the world but also the most crushing and politically expressive...