Word: pits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center featured two 175-seat movie theaters, multilingual information desks, a "First Ladies of America" exhibit, a national bookstore and a Hall of States. Its centerpiece was an 8,000-sq.-ft. sunken area called the "Primary Audio-Visual Experience." Critics soon renamed it "the Pit." At a cost of $1.5 million, the Pit housed a large screen that flashed a nine-minute musical slide show called the "Welcome to Washington Presentation...
...What is the point of looking at slides of the U.S. Capitol when you can walk out the front door and see it?" asked Daniel Moynihan. At one hearing, the Senator from New York drolly asked Hite if the number of people going down in the Pit equaled the number of people coming up. Some joked that the Pit should be turned into a swimming pool or a national aquarium to take advantage of the leaky roof. Virtually ignored by tourists, the Pit closed after two years...
...demands for defense expenditures comprise a bottomless pit that we can never fill. One of the most serious problems we have is the inclination on the part of our military leaders to seek more money by constantly denigrating America's formidable military capability. This hurts our own country and our allies' confidence in us, and might lead the Soviet rulers to make a suicidal misjudgment based on the chorus of lamentations from the Pentagon and defense contractors that we are weak and impotent...
When the ghosts take a whirling tour through the house, they include a pit stop in the children's suite to paint on the wall a picture of a pig and the slogan "Dishonor Thy Father." Papa Montelli of course refuses to believe the innocent cries that "brushes" did it and he start to belt the kids. Mom breaks in so he starts to break her. That fracas finally ends, ominously enough, with Sonny holding a loaded rifle to his father's head...
...Monday morning, as the cleanup of the massacre began, one final moment of panic swept the camps. While volunteer civil defense workers dug a huge pit near the entrance of Shatila to bury the dead, word spread that the militiamen were returning. Thousands of screaming Palestinians poured out of the camps and ran toward downtown Beirut. It is one thing to have escaped a massacre. It is quite another to escape the memory of it. -By George Russell. Reported by Roberto Suro/Beirut