Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain that watching Israelis understood, they intermittently switched to Hebrew, "Nasser lo yamut." At the compound enclosing Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, where Mohammed is supposed to have ascended to heaven, mourning Arabs were only a few yards away from Jews gathered at the Wailing Wall for Rosh Hashana prayers marking the start of the Hebrew year 5731. Among the Israeli worshipers was the old antagonist who had twice helped humble Nasser on the battlefield, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan...
...project for the Great Hall in Berlin, with its 1,000-ft.-high dome (16 times the volume of Michelangelo's cupola on St. Peter's) may look to a sophisticated eye like a cross between a white elephant and a cookie cutter. But had it been built, the effect on the 150,000 human ants it was designed to hold would have been stupendous: this would have been not only the largest building in the world but also the most crushing and politically expressive...
...Corbusier or Gropius. The function had nothing to do with human needs. It was simply to intimidate the people, and to assert the state-visual symbols as purposeful as Goebbels' radio broadcasts. No Berliner could look anywhere in his city, Hitler hoped, without seeing that overpowering dome, those relentless colonnades...
...side. I didn't mind going over to see him, just so long as I got what I wanted." Rogers' legal hero is a legendary Manhattan criminal lawyer named Max Steuer whose clients 50 years ago included Tammany Hall leaders and the Teapot Dome Scandal's Harry Daugherty. "He never raised his voice," says Rogers admiringly, "but he usually...
...like the Pru in Boston. For an experiment one day, look at Boston as you cross the Charles on the MTA, Cover the four or five skyscrapers with your hands and see how much closer to the land the red brick looks, clustered around the State House's gold dome...