Word: domes
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Shelter is a favorite image of Puryear's. For Beckwourth, 1980, presents a kind of solid wooden hogan with an ovoid top plastered in cracked mud, recalling both the primitive hut and the origins of the pendentive dome. (Jim Beckwourth is a figure often invoked by Puryear's sculpture. The freed son of a white man and a black slave woman, he served as a guide for various Western expeditions in the early 19th century, fought in the Mexican War and was at one point made a chief of the Crow Indians -- a symbol of multicultural America if ever there...
...thesis] has been done for a while. Lastnight I didn't work on it--I rearranged my room,"he said. "I changed it into a pleasure dome...
America does not stop at food and clothing: it's entertainment too. The blockbuster movies are all American -- Terminator 2, Home Alone, Pretty Woman -- and require buying tickets days in advance. Hours after the box offices | opened, all 56,000 seats for M.C. Hammer's concert at the Tokyo Dome were spoken for. Millions of dollars' worth of CDs -- from New Age to rap to jazz to blues -- are bought at stores like Tower Records. Don't want to buy? Listen to American music on J-Wave (81.3 FM), presented by English-speaking deejays with names like Jon and Carole...
...tendency to let it all hang out, Brown, 53, does not even try to protect himself from the image consequences of his esoteric passions. In fact, he sometimes seems to relish making himself an easy target and regularly walking into the propeller of his unshakable image as a double- dome space cadet. "I don't know which image you have of me," Brown tells new audiences, as if to exorcize his cartoon nicknames. "Governor Moonbeam? The Governor who drove a Plymouth? Slept on the floor...
...snow this deep -- 16 inches -- is a near miracle in Jerusalem, where so much hasn't fallen in four decades. The snow almost shut down the city, but even serious citizens frolicked near the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock...