Word: gateways
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...problem posed to Architect Saarinen in planning the center was far from simple. He had to design a monumental building of many uses that would at the same time be the gateway to a park and the lakefront symbol of the city. His answer was to keep the main floor open, se that a visitor entering from the upper level, off Lincoln Memorial Drive, can see through to the lake beyond, thus providing a visual link between city and lake. To give the building sweep and drama, he designed soaring, 30-ft. cantilevers for the upper stories, which house meeting...
...excellent interpretation of the Beethoven Op. 101 sonata, the gateway to the late period, is too well known to need extended comment here. Let it be said that the transition from the slow movement to the last was marked by some of the most scintillating trills it has been this reviewer's pleasure to hear in many a moon, and that the Finale was played with plenty of Entschlossenheit according to Beethoven's directions...
...been exhausted: Ansbach and Leipzig lad Bach; Bonn had Beethoven; Bayreuth had Wagner; Munich had Richard Strauss. Partly because they wanted a :omposer who had written enough to feed the festival for years, the Augsburgers aicked Verdi, and reminded visitors that :he city was once Germany's gateway to Italian commerce. This year Augsburg is offering Verdi's Otello and his rarely performed Battle of Legnano on an open-air stage with the city's famed medieval Red ate as a backdrop...
...Gateway to Justice. Last week, after a thorough restudy of the evidence, Public Prosecutor Cesare Palminteri marched into the Renaissance courtroom on Venice's Grand Canal-and demolished his own case. Anna Maria Caglio, he said flatly, was a liar-"a perfidious woman intent on vengeance and dedicated to mud-slinging." The fact was, declared Palminteri, that "there is absolutely no evidence, direct or indirect, against Piero Piccioni." He hinted broadly that the police would want to talk some more with Uncle Giuseppe ("What is he hiding?"). Then he asked that the charges be dropped against Piccioni...
...Reaffirmed, in the face of Saudi Arabian threats to bar foreign shipping from the Gulf of Aqaba, its support of the principle of "innocent passage." The U.S. view: the gulf, gateway to the Israeli port of Elath, has international status, i.e., no nation may blockade it unless the International Court of Justice rules otherwise...