Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anonymous buildings popularized by Mies van der Rohe. With the inspiration of Le Corbusier's massive concrete government buildings in Chandigarh and Niemeyer's skyward-lofting Brasilia, architects at last felt free to conceive of civic structures as needing neither to be placed under a dome or strait-laced into an office-building suit. Revell's entry came closest to what the judges were hoping for-a civic grouping that was both symbolic and functionally practical...
...usually shines and often gets in the way"). Always he returned to TIME covers, keeping a measured pace with the era, from sardine-boxed commuters to the heartbreaking Berlin Wall, from mechanical cows to Architect-Dreamer Buckminster Fuller-whose head, under the special Artzybasheff treatment, became a geodesic dome...
...attacks. One man was killed by flying bricks and mortar; two others died after parts of a shattered 50,000-gal. water tank fell on them. Elsewhere in the state, chimneys toppled, power lines snapped, roads buckled and bridges swayed. At the capitol in Olympia, the 37-year-old dome cracked, pillars shifted, and fragments of glass skylights crashed down on the legislators' empty chairs...
Rising high in the center stands a bronze fountain, girdled beneath by the 22-ft.-long Scroll of Isaiah; the fountain sends a jet of water through an opening in the dome to baptize the exterior tile. Says Kiesler: "It is a purification, just as the Dead Sea sect purified themselves in water thrice daily." Below the sanctuary is a crypt of rubbly red rock, lined with relics that reveal the life of the 2nd century Jewish rebels who fought the Romans from their caves. Emerging from the sanctuary, the visitor travels along a 150-ft.-long roofless corridor...
...paid $15,000 for the leopard coat that Actress Barbra Streisand wears in this week's CBS spectacular? No. Had CBS ordered the firing of Manager Yogi Berra when it bought control of the New York Yankees? No. Did CBS intend to enclose Yankee Stadium with a dome similar to Houston's new Astrodome? Emphatically no. Had CBS bought Comedian Jackie Gleason's $300,000 circular home as "a reducing spa for tired executives?" No, said Paley, it had bought the house to "induce Mr. Gleason to stay on CBS." Paley kept calm, but the audience...