Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fret about rising heating costs. During the long winter, temperatures there frequently plummet to -20° F or lower. But some Winooskians think they may have found a way to beat their rising oil bills. They are seriously looking into the idea of covering the town with a dome to reduce the escape of heat. Says the dome's chief proponent, Community Development Director Mark Tigan: "It would be the ultimate in Yankee ingenuity...
...average in the 1978 baseball season--the 6-0 shutout of Cornell to seal the 1978 Eastern League title for the Crimson: these glories fade to irrelevance in professional sports. The halo of his charmed athletic existence at Harvard, he hopes, will soon give way to a new dome covering his head. A big dome. In Houston...
Reggie, a four-foot-high cylinder with a blue plastic dome on top, wandered through the crowds, holding conversations with children and promoting one company's energy conservation system...
...looking yourself," he replied in a resonant metallic voice. "Before you leave, would you please kiss my dome...
...have the sense of a convention transformed and upheld that animates his black-and-white prints. The "feel" of Adams' monochrome work is utterly distinctive. It conveys an intense reverence for material: the density and solidity of rocks, the cannonball moon floating in a dark-filtered sky over Half Dome or the New Mexico desert, the way a geyser's spume becomes solid, a thick blade of water. There is an extraordinary distinctness and variety of detail, held in coherence by Adams' sense of tone...