Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...image. So far, the big bird has confined his flight pattern to the northwest section of the city where he often perches atop the National Cathedral like a gargoyle. Imagine the photographs in every newspaper in the world if he settled down to brood atop the Capitol dome or on the White House roof...
...Moretti after he was executed in 1951. No ambassadors came from the other New York Mafia families, but they had their reasons for staying away-too many police and reporters, and war in the air. The cortege, led part of the way by a police car with a flashing dome light, slowly toured Gallo's old President Street neighborhood, then drove to Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery. Police and federal agents were among the spectators. An unusually large number of gravediggers and an out-of-place olive-drab telephone van were on hand. The mourners filed by, dropping single...
Fuller, best known for his design of the geodeisic dome, spoke about himself, man's evolution and "an eternal, a priori design in which we can see the working of that evolution...
...terminals reversed, and this immediately showed up on the Western Union Board-a red light flashing-and so they sent over a couple of workmen to the Figueroa Street office that I'd rented ... They found Noah Dietrich there, standing there like an idiot with the glass dome of the ticker-tape machine in his hand-but no ticker-tape. I don't know how he got out of that one, but he did ... and so I hooked the terminals up again properly, and the machine ran perfectly-and it only cost me, as I say, about four...
...Sica rises almost to the surreal. To the swelling of a chanted exhortation to "Pray for all of us who fell at the hands of murderers in Dachau, Auschwitz and Treblinka...," De Sica leaves the scene of Micol's proud resignation to look one last time at the dome of Ferrara's synagogue, the implied emptiness beneath her tiled roofs, and a rusty padlock on the gate to the garden of the Finzi-Continis. With a camera eye that has treated two oranges on the luggage rack of a grimy train compartment with as much artistic respect as the baroque...