Word: domes
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Pick up the needle. Drop it on the record. DJ Craze, a.k.a. Aristh Delgado, is onstage at the 2000 DMC/Technics World DJ Championships in the Millennium Dome in London, and he's playing the crowd like a video game. Craze, 23, won the world championships in 1998 in Paris; he won again in 1999 in New York City. Most DJs just spin and scratch, maybe toss in a few behind-the-back tricks. When Craze spins, it's art--he twists notes in the air the way Jackson Pollock used to drip paint on a canvas. Now, at the London...
Flashbulbs popped and schoolgirls screamed as Ben Affleck appeared from behind a plume of smoke in the middle of the Tokyo Dome. "I love you, Ben!" someone shrilled. Affleck winked, and the crowd of 30,000 went wild...
...euro, which he has been stressing, over Blair's "wait and see" approach (27% to 26%), this issue ranks a mere 11th in importance. Funeral pyres of diseased livestock may be spewing smoke over the countryside, some of Blair's ministers may have resigned in disgrace, the Millennium Dome may be a universal symbol of grandiose incompetence - but Sue Heppel, a shop assistant who watched Hague campaign in Portsmouth, sums up the dominant view: "The Conservatives bitch a lot. Labour hasn't had a chance to finish everything off." Barring an upheaval, Blair will be easily returned to office...
...couldn't see the ring at first, so her first look at her engagement ring was by the pallid green light of my cell phone," Tyrgve says. "She got to examine it on the way back to her parents' house, however, as she insisted on keeping the dome light of the car on throughout the drive...
...weigh up to 50 tons. ("Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!" exclaims a disciple in the Gospel of Mark.) As Herod built out over the adjacent valleys, the outline of the mountain on which the compound sat gradually disappeared. The great stone featured in the Dome of the Rock, the Muslim shrine that now occupies Herod's immense pedestal, may be the mountain's peak...