Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Producer Michael Lumley, who directed the shifting of cameras from religious icons to the boys choir to the royal couple in a way that perfectly matched the music and pace of the ceremony. From a 6-in. square window near the top of St. Paul's golden dome, a BBC camera took some magnificent overhead shots of the procession up the aisle and the exchange of vows. The television gear was an intrusion-a camera clattered to the floor at one point-but it also lighted up the cathedral, revealing its art and architecture as never before...
...Glitter Dome, Wambaugh...
...Glitter Dome, Wambaugh...
Barring an act of God, the Irish Republican Army, the nation's unemployed or any combination thereof, Te Kanawa's audience will include one happy couple, 26 prominent clerics, a carefully vetted congregation of 2,500 crowding each other for pew space under the great painted dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, more than 75 technicians manning 21 cameras, and an estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million. They will be tuning in the century's greatest, grandest nuptial, the sort of love story Hollywood doesn't make any more and the kind of spectacle...
Rising out of a field on the campus of Princeton University is an eerie-looking Dacron-covered dome that suggests a wayward spaceship. Inside is something that looks either like a miniature Matterhorn or perhaps a giant Sno-Cone wrapped in plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning...