Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexander composes a hymn to the cobblestones, "small, regular granite blocks of all colours" on old Moscow's streets: "When the rains washed away the dirt and dust, drawing colours from the heart of the stone, their chance mosaic was far richer than the asphalt's colourless monotony." Winter is a cause of wonderment as sleighs move silently through the snow-hushed city. Finally comes the happiest of seasons in Russia, spring, with its ritual opening of windows. "Fresh spring air, wild and cool, fills the room, bringing with it the city's bright polyphony of voices, bells, and squealing...
...will be thousands of facts on the table," says O'Brien, "but only one thing matters: Will the public think she's honest? If so, none of the facts will be remembered. But if they decide she's not honest, then all the facts will be perceived as a mosaic of conspiracy and deceit...
...courtyard there is an old-fashioned red popcorn cart, the kind you see at country fairs with pretty gold lettering on the sides. Jackson wants to show me the swimming pool. A wall behind it has four fountainheads carved like bearded Neptunes spouting water from puckered lips. A large mosaic of a parrot fills the wall behind the fountains. There is also a Jacuzzi bath. We walk along a brick path, lined with clusters of flowers, that leads to a bridge over a pond. The moonlight shines down on the two pairs of swans gliding on the water...
...Muslim and Christian neighborhoods form a cohesive entity. City districts are bonded by bustling streets that serve both traffic and shopping, as well as parks and recreation areas that provide contact and interaction. Says Kollek, extravagantly: "We are not trying to create a monolithic melting pot but a multicultural mosaic in a pluralistic society...
Modern Lebanon is a strictly sectarian society: citizens must carry an identity card giving their religious affiliation. Although the two main currents of religion are Christian and Muslim, each is a mosaic of supporting and frequently feuding parts. As a result, there are 17 recognized religious groups: five are Muslim, one is Jewish and eleven are Christian (among them Maronite, Greek, Armenian and Syrian Catholics and their Orthodox counterparts...