Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine days last January in the center of Moscow. Among the 50 firms that mounted displays were Britain's Quest Automation and Sinclair Ltd.; no U.S. makers were represented. The fair was a hit with Muscovites, who paid 50 kopecks (about 75 cents) for tickets and crowded into a pavilion that was blinking brightly with video screens. Computers were also on prominent display at a Moscow robotics trade fair in February...
WHEN WESTSIDE Alternative School opened in Venice, California, it had a principal some textbooks, a few teachers, and a bunch of kids. That was it. No classrooms, no passing periods, no lenses no flagpole Classes were held on the beach pavilion or by the seashore and the principal handled his administrative chores out of a VW buy Abundance for the 250-odd students was voluntars, and everyone--teacher and pupil went by first name Parents, faculty, and students shared responsibility for all school decisions...
Thursday was a day at the races. An unusually big weekday crowd (12,666) came to Keeneland to watch her and the horses. "She's darling," pronounced Lori Wykstra, a retired nurse. "I didn't see anything dowdy about her." Inside the wood-paneled Keeneland pavilion, the Queen watched a mock yearling sale-cum-Thoroughbred quiz show, all staged for her amusement: the M.C. described only the horses' pedigrees, while the visitor and her entourage guessed at the identity of each animal. Later, mingling a bit with the groundlings in the grandstand after the $100,000 Queen...
...early '20s Le Corbusier, with his drawings of a Contemporary City for Three Million People, proposed a massive urban complex built to accommodate the automobile in, around and out of high-rises. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, visitors to the seductive General Motors pavilion rode in moving chairs through a 1,700-ft. display of vast expressways designed to effortlessly handle the projected traffic flow...
...took the Olympics to showcase the new gymnastics and their freshly minted champions in a week of competition as razor close as it was electric. How far the sport has come in its public appeal could be seen by the crowds that thronged into the 12,700-capacity Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus for every major event. One of the dozens of NEED TICKETS signs outside the men's team finals was held aloft by a young UCLA student. Three members of the men's team are fellow UCLA Bruins and, she noted, things were different...