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Beyong the wide expanse of pane glass windows, beyond the cluster of skyscrapers that house the headquarters of some of the area's biggest banks, beyond the gold dome of the State House glittering in the late afternoon sun, the Charles River meanders by in the distance...
...equipment used in the investigationconsisted of Panasonic time lapse video recordersand monitors, solid state chip cameras, and Elbexminiature dome cameras. Police officials said theywatched the videos in fast forward, looking forany sign of the suspect...
...EX400 CCD PEEPING DOM: Planted on Widener and Pusey ceilings; High resolution and sensitivity; gamma correction; video enhancing; smoked, high impact dome; wide angle, auto iris, low light lens...
Like Camden Yards, it looked good on paper. But then they built the glass dome and a little too much light began to shine on the project. Players taking batting practice under the dome were so blinded by the glare that four glass panels had to be painted white. That, in turn, killed the grass. The grounds keeping compromise that artificially grew out of this crisis--Astroturf--haunts the national pastime to this...
Shelter is a favorite image of Puryear's. For Beckwourth, 1980, presents a kind of solid wooden hogan with an ovoid top plastered in cracked mud, recalling both the primitive hut and the origins of the pendentive dome. (Jim Beckwourth is a figure often invoked by Puryear's sculpture. The freed son of a white man and a black slave woman, he served as a guide for various Western expeditions in the early 19th century, fought in the Mexican War and was at one point made a chief of the Crow Indians -- a symbol of multicultural America if ever there...