Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mortar, doesn't mention the building at all, Newspaper buildings by and large are rough, functional structures, which serve a practical daily purpose and expedite the production of their publications. Few of them win architecture awards, and none of them can approach in grandeur the Lampoon's pleasure dome. The Crimson's building has served its purpose for two generations...
...russet foothills of the Anti-Lebanon range, the road curves past an elegant stand of cypress trees. Suddenly the village cascades into view. The flat-roofed houses of mud and stone climb up the walls of a dead-end canyon of brown rock. Nestled in a crevice is the dome of a small convent, and high above, on the crest of the ravine, looms the Byzantine cupola of a monastery that, according to its lone priest, is 1,700 years old. Below is a patchwork of tiny fields where villagers grow corn, tomatoes and grapes...
...looked a little like Lady Freedom who sways atop the Big Gold Dome...
...schoolers. Take football; I mean Jackson High might as well have stayed inside the locker room and popped sits for 48 minutes than bother showing its colors on the same Tupper Field as the Marian Knights. Granted, Catholics had a rich tradition being from South Bend-Notre Dame-Golden Dome-Fightin' Irish-Fraternal Order of Polish Falcons, Nest No. 9 country; but still, that can't be the only reason...
...Fellini's childhood in Rimini have none of the insight of I Vitelloni, made 20 years ago and still far more immediate. A long fantasy about an ecclesiastical fashion show had its far more effective beginnings in La Dolce Vita, when Anita Ekberg galloped up to the dome of St. Peter's dressed in a parody of a priest's outfit. Fellini even teases us by reprising a melody from La Dolce Vita as the clergy parade in their outré regalia...