Word: dome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the burned-out tenements and crowded streets of The Bronx in New York City rises a stately crystal dome filled with subtropical orchids and a grove of graceful palms. A waterfall tumbles from fern-covered volcanic rocks, and the warm, aromatic scent of lemons and oranges fills the air. Last week one of the chilliest, dreariest; mushiest winters in years was refusing to let go. But New Yorkers could celebrate eternal spring sous verre. The New York Botanical Garden Conservatory had just opened after two years of costly restoration...
Besides that, though, Michael owned the match. Desaulniers' game had more angles than a geodesic dome, and he simply stunned the crowd with a masterful assortment of tweaks, drops, put-aways and quick-dying three-corner nicks...
...nation's capital as well as in the heartland, he was honored as if he had. Not only was his body flown to Washington on the plane that had carried the bodies of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, but it also lay in state beneath the dome of the Capitol Rotunda on the same bier that had held Abraham Lincoln and J.F.K...
...Nixon, and held his hand warmly. So did Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Almost with eagerness, Carter, Ford and Nixon followed Baker into an anteroom for a historic picture of the three. In a few minutes it was time for these people to take their places beneath the Capitol dome to honor Hubert Humphrey...
However, New Orleans still has some of the best restaurants in the U.S., and some elegant hotels outside the dome area (most notably, the Pont-chartrain), which theoretically can only get better with the influx of well-heeled visitors that Superdome events are attracting...