Word: gate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What I find most incredible is that some of my photos actually show more complete views than the old ones," says Tassel, pointing to his shot of Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, which faces the Syrian capital to the North. Due to modern archaeological excavations, the contemporary picture shows more of the ancient structure than the Bonfils original...
...gate was originally built by the Romans as part of the defensive wall around Jerusalem and served as one of several entrances to the city. The gate visible today was built on top of the Roman gate in the mid-16th century by the Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, but recent diggings have revealed parts of the old gate, Rosovsky says...
...crowd at the hockey game that night was less impressed with my on-air performance. The first hurdle was getting into and around the rink in my conspicuous cost and tie without being recognized. I told the attendant at the press gate my name, and he told me that there were a whole lot of people in the building who wanted...
...desire is to hope for the best; the necessity is to expect the worst. Yet, since the Soviet Union remains a closed gate, both forms of anticipation reveal more of ourselves than of the Soviets. For nearly half a century, the West has been a people of gate watchers in regard to the Soviet Union. Once more we address our questions to the gatekeeper: Does his relative youth signal flexibility or merely a longer reign of adamancy? Does his background in agriculture suggest less emphasis on the military? Is this changing of the guard merely plus ca change...
Throughout this ritual, the gate remains closed, as it has always been closed, from the days before the Czars through a history that owes little to the West. As for the new gatekeeper, he will reveal himself when he and the state from which he is inseparable are ready. In Speak, Memory, Nabokov tells of awakening mornings in the Russia of his boyhood and glancing at the chink between the white shutters to see what the new day proffered: gloom or "dewy ( brilliancy." The West has no shutters it can open, and the glimpses it gets show almost nothing. This...