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...bells were installed in Lowell when it was built in 1930. A plumbing manufacturer had rescued the bells from a small Russian village that had been about to melt them down...
Seen in that light a lot of the Superdome's flaws just melt away. The Dome may have overrun its original cost estimates by more than 500 per cent, becoming the biggest gravy train for Louisiana builders and politicians in years--but so, for all we know, may have the Pyramid of Cheops, and who remembers that now? What does it matter that the Superdome is actually ugly, a vast heap of metal that now dominates downtown New Orleans? Or that it has bad acoustics and ventilation or that nobody can find the bathrooms, or that...
...only that Venera 9 and 10 were a "new type of spacecraft" that would make scientific explorations of Venus and its environment. Western observers expected the ships to attempt soft landings on the scalding Venusian surface, where the temperature is more than 1,000° F.-hot enough to melt lead-and atmospheric pressure is 90 times that of the earth's at sea level...
...volcano that presents a threat. After studying the extensive volcanic deposits around Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington, they warned that it could erupt again before the end of the century. Even if no such outburst occurs at Mount Baker, say the scientists, the mountain's heat could melt enough snow and ice on its slopes to cause dangerous mud slides and floods...
Paradoxical? "Misha" is more than that. He is an enigma compounded of moody shyness, bold theatricality, post-adolescent intellectual pretense and a sweetness that makes him melt at the sight of an appealing house pet. But that is how it should be for the newest, brightest star in an art that is itself a series of paradoxes. What other discipline demands of its practitioners that they train like athletes and sweat like stevedores in order to achieve romantic effects of the most ethereal nature? What other art places such emphasis on tradition, yet depends on such unreliable resources-the kinesthetic...