Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time seems to have come at last for Fuller's best-known idea: the geodesic dome that he first patented in 1954. Long used for large exhibition halls and warehouses, it suddenly has caught on as a dome-icile. Hillsides and forests from Connecticut to California are being covered with easy-to-build, simple-to-maintain dome homes...
Ingres was not out to draw from Rome a grandiose nostalgia, a la Piranesi; what fascinated him was the particularity of the city, its palimpsest of styles and periods-as in the masterly View of Santa Maria Maggiore, with its jostle of medieval tower, 16th century facades and Baroque dome. He spurned atmospheric effects (even a puff of smoke, he once remarked, should be done with a line) in favor of utter concreteness. The most-quoted remark Ingres ever made was that "drawing is the probity...
...private discussion with Prime Minister Golda Meir, dined with Foreign Affairs Minister Abba Eban and spent more than an hour with former Premier David Ben-Gurion. With temperatures in the high 80s, Roman Catholic Muskie performed an ecumenical triple play: he took off his shoes to enter the Moslem Dome of the Rock, perched a yarmulke on his head at the Wailing Wall and talked with a Christian priest at the shrine of the Holy Sepulcher...
Feeling all choked up? Sakowitz's department store in Houston is marketing a "home dome" that completely encloses houses and grounds in vinyl. Beneath the dome, which costs $7.50 per square foot, 300 to 1,000 tons of electric air conditioning will maintain an Astrodomic 72° in summer, while the structure seals out smog and soot. For less well-heeled customers, Sakowitz offers a cheaper escape from the noxious fumes: a sequined gas mask...
...family legend, the Teapot Dome scandal of 1924 fixed Nixon's determination-he was eleven at the time -to become a "lawyer who can't be bought" (his mother wanted him to become a missionary). During a high school summer he worked as a carnival barker at the Slippery Gulch Rodeo in Prescott, Ariz.; upon his graduation, the local Harvard Club voted him "best all-around student," but Nixon turned down the chance to apply for a Harvard scholarship and went to Whittier College instead-early intimations of anti-Eastern-liberal-establish-mentarianism perhaps? At Whittier he helped...