Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier pavilion, and the curl of a dressing- mirror frame, and the flat black cover of a notebook on the vanity, and the way a scrim curtain hung and stirred in the faint breeze -- and all the rest...
...booters are still in the running this time around, their path to a national championship will end at Washington's Tacoma Dome December...
...temperatures often dip to -40 degreesF. Much of their concept is blatantly borrowed from Disneyland -- right down to the name of their amusement park, which they have dubbed Fantasyland. (Walt Disney Productions is suing over use of that name.) But the Ghermezians view the delights of their pleasure dome unsentimentally. "We do not make money on the entertainment," says Eskandar, fortyish, one of the less secretive of the brothers. "We make money on the retail sales. But it is the entertainment that brings in the people...
...Game, and then all kinds of incredible things began happening. The Crimson headline next day: HARVARD WINS, 29-29. Others remember less epic events: sculling on the Charles, drinking at Cronin's, the ludicrous vaudeville shows at the Hasty Pudding Club, the sun rising over the blue dome of Lowell House. And as with Oxford or the Sorbonne, the House of Commons or the Vatican or any other very long-lived institution, 3 1/2 cen- turies of history have probably taught Harvard that all things come and go. And this too -- whatever it may be -- shall pass...
...answer in each case is the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, which unfolds where it started, within the ivy-covered remnant walls of a onetime Chautauqua dome in the folksy college town of Ashland (pop. 15,000). The first season, three performances, was accompanied by boxing matches to defray costs. The fights lost money. The theater made a profit. Today the Ashland operation, revered on the West Coast but largely unknown elsewhere, has an annual budget of $5.5 million and sells more than 90% of capacity...