Word: pit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...floors of seating, which have 890 seats in total, almost wrap around the stage, expanding outward from a moat-like pit that encircles the thrust. At one point, this cavity did contain water (it was a river in a production of Dead End), but now it alternates between simply being added to the stage and concealing an orchestra...
...dedication of Yu Zhengyang, a sanitation worker from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. In the winter of 1997, says Yu, his wife, Zhou Hongxia, disappeared after being summoned to a provincial police station in Xicheng. A few months later, Yu recounts, her body was found in a latrine pit just 15 m from the police headquarters. The police autopsy report ruled her death a suicide, but Yu says that doesn't explain why her body was covered in bruises and lacerations. Yu was particularly alarmed when police repeatedly visited his home, urging him to hand over the battered corpse...
...redesign will incorporate steeply-raked seating, lighting along catwalks, control and follow-spot lighting booths and an orchestra pit into the existing infrastructure...
...Colombo, Sri Lanka's busy commercial capital, the disco-loving night crawlers tend to be far removed from the city's working class. But there is one place where their two worlds intersect: Hotel de Pilawoos. No evening out in Colombo is complete without an after-midnight pit stop by this grungy eatery on the Galle Road. If you're put off by the rust-ridden iron furniture and curry-stained floors (Pilawoos doesn't win awards for hygiene), then follow the example of the local ?lite and chow down in the comfort of your car. Any time...
...targets, the brash 29-year-old was already speaking his mind. Michael Holland, a New York City money manager and acquaintance of Weill's, recalls hearing Dimon bluntly telling Weill that a veteran Wall Street banking analyst didn't know what he was talking about. "He was like a pit bull," recalls Holland. "I was just impressed with the tenacity of the guy, and I've never forgotten...