Word: gate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When visitors arrive for an approved visit with Mandela, they drive through the prison farm's main gate and across its rustic grounds until they reach a fenced-in compound. After registering at a guard station, leaving cameras behind, guests are ushered into the parlor of a three-bedroom stucco cottage where Mandela has been incarcerated since recovering from tuberculosis...
...become a potent new symbol in a plethora of TV commercials celebrating its opening. Pepsi-Cola filmed an ad that features a young woman handing a flower to a border guard. Quintessence, a Chicago cosmetics firm, taped a 30-second corporate ad depicting a family reunion at the Brandenburg Gate. AT&T interviewed people at the Wall who told how they phoned friends when it opened...
Daily Life in the Forbidden City by Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing and Lu Yanzhen (Viking; $75). As the Son of Heaven moved through his palaces, the Hall of Luminous Benevolence, the Gate of Divine Prowess, there was everywhere beauty to behold. The Palace Museum in Beijing has assembled a sumptuous record of this quotidian splendor...
...ROBERT H. SCOTT, now Harvard's vice president for finance, explaining why Harvard spent three years and $25,000 building a 25-square foot gatehouse by the Johnston Gate...
...Santa's world in Jordan Marsh, huge red Christmas balls form a gate to Santa's Workshop, where teddy bears make toys, ride sleighs, light fires and sing carols, and a large red mailbox guards the path to Santa...