Word: fountains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pavarotti drank the Trevi fountain b) Mount Etna erupted c) Roberto Benigni won't let go of the Tower of Pisa d) Coliseum ticket takers can't bear to hear "Strength and honor!" anymore...
...This year 92% of Fox Tech students passed the state's math exam--the best performance in the district. The dropout rate--15% in 1995--is down to 4%. The old Fox Tech literally smelled from garbage left to rot in corners and from homeless men who used the fountain as a toilet. Now the school is spotless. Open house, which used to draw perhaps 60 parents, regularly attracts 600--spurred, no doubt, by Cockrell's having dispatched faculty to knock on doors...
...match to tinder. On Monday, Thomas' mother and 200 other protesters left a three-hour meeting at city hall infuriated by all the unanswered questions. The group began shouting at police. Soon, rocks and bottles were flying. At the center square, people hurled garbage cans into the Tyler Davidson Fountain, where locals have historically gathered to celebrate the end of wars...
...selections from three different series that Hoferhas done, one of libraries, one of museums, and one of office spaces.The current exhibition space is tucked away within the Rose Art Museum, at Brandeis University. The Rose Art Museum is a haven for contemporary art in New England. A water fountain in the next room provides a constant sonic backdrop for the exhibit, which unfolds in a single room. We begin with Deichmanske Bibliothek Oslo III (2000), which, like three of the other photographs in the exhibit, is taken from Hšfers series on libraries. 80 of these pictures were exhibited...
...boulevards are wide, and lined with palm trees and shrubs. But they overlook a big, ugly sandy patch dominated by a concrete structure overlooking the "Square of Martyrs." It had been intended as a fountain cascading the waters of Ghaddafi's unfinished "Great Man-Made River Project"; instead it serves as a dusty soccer pitch for young boys who play late into the night...