Word: domes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...
...while Kentucky Coach Rick Pitino addressed the student body and Tar Heels partied at the Dean Smith Dome, the leaves in the entry of Briggs Cage were undisturbed and the only noise came from passing cars on Harvard Avenue...
...dowager from Concord, "Harvard Square" says homeless people, punks in the Pit and the headache of finding parking. "Harvard Yard" says wide, green spaces, tranquility, and the unobstructed fulfillment of the fetishism of commodities. As one frequent patron of the Square put it, "Why not just put a glass dome over the whole thing and call it a fucking mall...
Some things go slowly, like the piece titled Paradiso, 1993, hung from the Guggenheim dome: two enormous breastlike funnels drip a white liquid into the ornamental pool far below, drawing an imaginary line and suggesting grace | coming, rather parsimoniously, from heaven. Others go fast, like Untitled (Amerika), 1990, Horn's image of nomadic life and rootlessness: a beat-up suitcase with a thermometer inside flaps agitatedly along a line slung across the open well of the building...
...Water Crash -- a drip-dry, 5-minute introduction to white-water rafting. The rapids are projected onto a screen as the raft bucks on a pool of water. Visitors can also sample from the menus of 15 restaurants and peek into the computerized control room that operates the retractable dome -- the largest in the world...