Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-dressed crowd of 700, representing much of California's Democratic establishment, waited expectantly after a sellout dinner in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. At the front tables were such glitterati as Actress Jane Fonda and her husband Assemblyman Tom Hayden, former California Governor Pat Brown and Film Producer Irwin Winkler. But as New York Governor Mario Cuomo prepared to deliver his speech, an oyster shucker working nearby was puzzled by all the hoopla. "What's the deal?" he asked. "Is he running for something...
...shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier pavilion, and the curl of a dressing- mirror frame, and the flat black cover of a notebook on the vanity, and the way a scrim curtain hung and stirred in the faint breeze -- and all the rest...
...contortionist folly: it jams all the moves of a mansion into a building the size of a gazebo. But in its earnest eagerness to please, the little building is more cute than contentious. John Syvertsen has envisioned a Wisconsin lake cottage as a kind of friendly folk pavilion: the tin chimney, latticework and exposed Y trusses satisfy the middle-class Arcadian ideal, while the broad stairs and hipped roof make the cottage nearly grand -- rustic classical...
...city closed Wollman for renovations, which were expected to take no longer than two years. The city originally estimated that the repair bill would total $9 million, but it eventually reached $12 million without a cube of ice to show for it. The roof of the pavilion, which houses the changing rooms and restaurant, was riddled with holes and made a perfect sieve. The ice-making equipment could not do its job because its 22 miles of refrigeration pipes had sprung dozens of leaks, a disaster that was not discovered until after concrete had been poured. The pipes were further...
...Anaheim, Calif., and at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., visitors sit in round theaters and are treated to postcard-panorama film tours of China and France through the technocraft of Circle-Vision 360. The 100 small panels that make up the huge screen in the Energy Pavilion at Disney World's Epcot Center rotate in sync, creating gorgeous sculptured images. Filmed characters interact with spooky holograms and jolly robots. Thus it is with justifiable bluster that Frank Wells, the dapper, track-star-thin boss of Disney's theme lands, describes the company's latest park attraction...