Word: dome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the pristine glass there is that great swath of the United States, a land that can barely be glimpsed from the interstate highway or sensed from 35,000 ft. To be sure, the view from Bedroom A or the dome car exposes every automobile graveyard, garbage dump, trailer park, parking lot, drive-in, burger joint, shopping mall, sewage plant, forsaken factory, slum and rural hovel in the unwritten guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons...
...right arm of the Father, and disappeared into his tent. "He's getting his wok," Lori said in her gravelly voice. "We're going to have the traditional revolutionary meal of his ancestors." She paused. "They ate it before the Big One in '48." Too emerged with the huge dome upside down over his head, looking like a toadstool...
With only a little time before your bus is due to arrive to carry you back north, you walk along the Washington streets. The sun is down now, but the sky is still deepening, an electric blue background for a postcard-pretty, 1000-megawatt Capitol dome. Your legs ache a little, and you feel drained, peaceful in the night air. For a second, staring at the brilliant white Capitol dome, you feel a pang of--nah, really? You?--patriotism. It's getting late. Some kids are running across the courtyard below the Capitol building, brandishing sticks and hollering away...
Inspired by the famed Palm House of England's Royal Botanic Gardens, the conservatory's 90-ft.-high dome and ten interconnecting pavilions cover nearly an acre. Within that glass palace, Horticulturist Carleton Lees has created what he calls "a living museum so that people can see what the real world was like in the past." After all, he explains, "we're more related to these things than we are to the automobile. They live and breathe like...
Strout said he has no plans to stop writing. Besides, there is a big story coming up. According to what he calls Strout's Law, "There is a major scandal in American political life every 50 years: Grant's in 1873, Teapot Dome in 1923, Watergate in 1973." Advises Strout: "Nail down your seats...