Word: gondola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rhinemaidens frolic in Victorian bloomers. Fricka ascends to Valhalla by means of a balloon gondola. The Valkyries ride off to war aboard carrousel horses suspended in midair. Wotan puts Brunnhilde to sleep in what appears to be a cluttered attic, full of ungodly bric-a-brac, and she awakens in a starry mausoleum. Siegfried slays the dragon Fafner by chopping at a gigantic crab's claw and then pushing over a flimsy set of painted flats. The forest bird who guides the hero to Brunnhilde is a taxidermist's specimen, carried aloft on a stick by a highly visible soprano...
...Telco) announced upscale Mountain Village: 92 acres of residences, hotels, a golf course and new intermediate runs, necessary to attract family-oriented baby boomers. The whole operation was to be built six miles and a mountainside away from Telluride, linked to the town by a high- speed European-style gondola...
...disinterested gaze, combined with sip from sherry glass and lengthy stare at shoelaces) "Yes." (raised eyebrows, implication of deep passions long ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover who came out of the closet on a Venetian gondola and shtupped his wife in their bridal suite...
Hart's campaign last week was a string of photo opportunities. He tooled around San Diego harbor in an experimental boat and climbed into the gondola of a bright yellow-and-blue hot-air balloon at a balloon fiesta in Albuquerque (gusty winds kept the craft from getting off the ground). In speeches Hart presents himself as the thoughtful leader discussing issues of the future, delivering detailed proposals on voting procedures in Grand Junction, Colo., on women's rights in Albuquerque, on nuclear-arms control in Santa Barbara...
...fair will make a welcome permanent mark on New Orleans. Taking over a swath of the levee that had been cut off by wharves and railyards, the big show will leave behind the riverfront promenade, the gondola system and the Great Hall, which will become a convention center. It has also hastened the refurbishing of more than two dozen 19th and early 20th century warehouses, whose harmonious blend of textures and styles-Greek revival, Italianate and postmodern-is unmatched in any other U.S. city. These will be converted into badly needed offices, apartments and stores. The future star...