Word: illusione
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The great dark vault beneath the dome of New York City's Hayden Planetarium is thick with silence. Schoolchildren who a moment ago were babbling and twitching like a flock of noisy starlings now sit jammed in their seats, motionless, their young eyes straining to see. Suddenly the ebony...
The most confident example of the manner is by the Argentine-born architect Cesar Pelli, now dean of the college of art and architecture at Yale. His Pacific Design Center of 1976 has been assimilated into the local folklore of Los Angeles quicker than any building in recent memory, because...
Logic peeling aside, a Muppet is (most of the time but not always) a largish arm puppet, whose body contains the arm and whose head surrounds the hand of its operator. When the operator's thumb and fingers come together, the Muppet's mouth closes; when thumb and fingers separate...
In a new book called Iran: The Illusion of Power, British Military Expert Robert Graham argues that possession of a large and varied force is an advantage to the Shah rather than a potential threat to his continuing rule. "A large military establishment," Graham writes, "enables the Shah to fragment...
Social security has historically been viewed as the source of retirement income--the guarantee extended by the federal government that retirement is a right; that the end of a lifetime of work does not spell sudden destitution. That vision has now become no more than an illusion--yes, retirees still...