Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lesson in Massachusetts politics, or maybe politics in general. A visit to one of the public hearings of a committee of the Massachusetts legislature can make the uninitiated believe that the huge building with the gold dome is an expensive set for a movie satire rather than the State House. However, the scene loses its humor when you realize that the three hours of antics known as a public hearing will determine the fate of a bill before the legislature, if its fate has not already been decided in the minds of the committee members...
Then there is the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), whose majestic 310-ft. dome once dominated the center of Dresden. Like Hiroshima's Industrial Promotion Hall, it will be left in ruins, a mute reminder of the thought expressed by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in his Dresden novel, Slaughterhouse 5: "There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre...
...leak. Once again, a thick black tide from the same Union Oil Co. well oozed offshore over a 20-mile area, fouling beaches and harming marine creatures. Company officials and the U.S. Geological Survey maintain that the new leak was caused by a buildup of pressure in the oil dome. The solution to the problem seems to be to keep pumping oil so that the pressure does not reach the rupture point. But even normal operation of the offshore wells is risky. Pipeline breaks are not uncommon, with unfortunate results for waterfowl and Santa Barbara residents...