Word: loom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street would be the new railroad station, more magnificent than Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. There would be the Führer Palace, with a reception hall 500 yards long, and a triumphal arch twice as wide as Napoleon's. Over everything would loom the Kuppelhalle, a domed meeting hall vast enough to enclose St. Peter's Cathedral. "I would never have entered politics," the Führer would sigh, "if I could have been an architect or a master builder...
...plan of the Dade County Port Authority does indeed loom as the crippling blow. Paying private landowners an average price of only $180 an acre, the Port Authority last year quietly began to acquire 39 square miles on the edge of Big Cypress Swamp, which supplies 38% of the park's water. As originally stated, the purpose was to build a "training" jetport for five airlines, whose landing fees will finance a $10 million bond issue for the first runway, which Eastern Air Lines will open next month. Able to handle the new super jets...
...grappling with the lion, an llth century capital from Avignon's Notre Dame des Doms, contains within its stylized forms both the violence of the struggle and the authority of an abstraction. Its companion piece, representing Samson pulling down the temple on his head as six Philistine heads loom above, demonstrates Auden's observation that the old masters were never wrong about suffering: "How well they understood /. . . how it takes place/ While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along." The small figure of St. Peter from the Third Abbey Church at Cluny...
...Crimson baseball team, which reached the NCAA Finals at Omaha last year, is to repeat its success, experience and aggressiveness loom large in deciding their chances. Heading the list of experienced ballplayers is senior pitching ace Bob Dorwart, and leading an impressive array of young aggressive players is sophomore shortstop Bill Kelly...
...last turn on the ramp at the Guggenheim, lined with proud "Zigs" and sprightly "Arcs," Wright's giant skylights loom close above the sculpture, filtering wan daylight through and crushing the mighty works down to an almost puny human scale. But if the ambience seems bleak, it is also strangely appropriate, for Smith's last works were conceived and built in desolation. His second wife had left him in the isolated mountain house, taking with her their two daughters. Visitors, though they revelled in the gourmet meals that the sculptor cooked and joined in the monumental drinking bouts...