Word: domes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stubbornly refused realization while they lived -- one thinks of rocket scientist Robert Goddard and car manufacturer Preston Tucker -- it seems we must now add the name of Benjamin Siegel. His great notion was the reinvention of Las Vegas, converting it from a sleepy cow town into a gaudy pleasure dome where everything that was illicit elsewhere in the puritanical U.S. of a half-century ago was openly available on a gloriously legal basis...
...most lasting impression from this city of domes and spires, synagogues and mosques was the sight of the Temple Mount, surely one of the most overwhelming plazas anywhere. Rising above the narrow, cramped quarters of the city, the open areas surrounding the A1-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques provide freedom of space and a breath of fresh air. Up here, one is allowed the tranquility to wonder how, if ever, peace will come to Jerusalem...
...show suggests surprising formal continuities in works whose subjects are radically different. "Monolith-- The Face of Half Dome" (1927), one of Adams's mountain scenes, is paired with his decisively urban 1940 print of the RCA Building in New York. Both works focus on a structure of monumental scale. Yet Adams crops both photos so that the viewer sees parts of other, similar details in the surroundings--other mountains in the former, other buildings in the latter. The effect is to focus our eye on the overall scene and atmosphere rather than simply the massiveness of the central subject...
...When you talk about loudness, it would seem to me because of the construction of an indoor dome it's bound to be louder than outdoors," said Harry Caray, voice of the Chicago Cubs...
...Ghaida, Palestinian activism springs from an innate sense of duty. During her years at Harvard, events occured--the outbreak of the intifada, the incident at the Dome of the Rock, the Gulf War--which left her no choice but to respond...