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...sacred river, the Seattle cascade plunges through a chasm, this one measurable to man, down to a sunless picture window through which park visitors can watch traffic on the adjacent freeway underpass swim silently by like fish in a tank. That was one intent of the design-to drown out the downtown freeway's noise. "It's like action painting," Halprin explains. "My works are not fulfilled until they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Shaping Water into Art | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

Joggers make me sick. There are plenty of them around here. They run past me with supercilious smirks on their red faces. What are they trying to prove? I hope they all drown in their own sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1977 | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

Certainly nothing much happens in the Russian provincial military outpost where the three sisters are exiled psychologically as well as physically from their dear beloved Moscow. Boredom, drunkenness, mean gossip and despair are the town's leading resources, and the sisters drown in anguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Singing the Moscow Blues | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...article the "Dammed Lousewort" [April 11] was! Imagine the gall of this preposterous plant to halt the construction of a "$668 million hydroelectric project" like the Dickey-Lincoln Dam in Maine. For heaven's sake, the species was thought extinct anyway-let's make it official and drown it under a few billion gallons of water. All this endangered-species-list bit is getting boring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1977 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...Terriers are to drown out Radcliffe's optimism, they will have to do much more than a dog paddle, because the Crimson boats look very strong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Lightweights Sport a 'Racy' Crew; Huntsman Expects Tough Competition from BU | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

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