Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while his "imagination stalked ahead, aghast, among sight soon to be outdone." Shedding light on the bizarre truth of our inner, irrational metaphors, she presents this vision of a city unnaturally demolished to expose the contours of the earth, leaving only "a single monument, defabricated girders of an abolished dome, presiding like a vacant cranium or a hollowing out of the great globe itself: Saint Peter's in some eternal city of nightmare...
Inside the thicket stood two rows of dasoyils, the dome-shaped folding huts used by wandering Ogaden herdsmen. There were two shops stocked with canned goods, boxes of spaghetti and bolts of cloth, a café where men sat drinking cups of steaming spiced tea laced with sour camel milk, a stall where a cobbler took orders for made-to-measure goatskin sandals. Camels groaned in protest as their owners loaded them up with sacks of rice, flour and sugar; the sounds blended unevenly with the bleat of goats and sheep grazing on the scrubby vegetation of a nearby field...
...offer-the Welsh village of Blaenau Ffestiniog, near which, 40 years ago, the National Gallery secreted its paintings to save them from the blitz. Nash assembles his sculptures from rough tree branches, trunks and slate. His projects include a sculpture of growing trees, topiarized into the form of a dome, a sylvan abstraction that will take 30 years to reach its intended dimensions. What seems so fetching in his work is not just its titles, which are antic (who could not be charmed by a pair of boughs, their twiggish arms laid over each other, called Cuddling Branches...
...Moscow Games to secure commodities they have never quite been able to purchase in the market of world opinion: prestige and respectability. Intensely proud and patriotic, they have inherited a centuries-old inferiority complex. They have invested hundreds of millions in the 1980 Games and have gilded every onion dome in Moscow. The Olympics were to be the great Soviet coming-out party...
Outside, an evening of cold beauty also seemed to diminish the inside warning. A Monument moon rode high, and the city from the Washington Monument to the Capitol dome was proudly luminescent. With luck it will stay that way. But we seem to be pushing...