Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the projects Simpson described was a drinking fountain doubling as a watering...
...genre's standardcharacteristics. Catchy one-liners abound. Inresponse to the future people's greeting "Bewell," Spartan menacingly responds to a foe, "Befucked." Also, the obligation to come up with newand creative ways of killing people is fulfilledearly on when Phoenix takes out a guy's eyeballwith a fountain...
Inspired by the fountain in front of Harvard'sScience Center, artist Joan Brigham proposed a"Steam Ring," a system of several steam fountainsalong the route to attract the public's attention."We want to make what is invisible and theoreticalvisible to the public eye," Brigham said. "It'sreally important that the grassroots approve. Thepublic's voice is critical...
BOOK EXCERPT: The Fountain...
...relied upon for irrigation and as the sole source of water for 1.7 million people in and around San Antonio. It is what biologists call a "hot spot," because the aquifer's spring system is home to 65 species found nowhere else on earth. Among them: the fountain darter, the Texas blind salamander and Texas wild rice. Falling water levels in the aquifer, caused by unregulated and excessive usage, threatened the species, and in 1991 the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, forcing it to take action...