Word: planetariums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...keeping self from exploding of •Letterman groveled to by • non-Bushness of is announced by •Obama attack ads in TV football game ruin the viewing experience of •Obama is called "Senator Government" by •Palin is described as a "bresh of freth air" by •planetarium projector is astonishingly mentioned again by •potential of ACORN to destroy the very "fabric of democracy" is noted by •potential women voters are repelled by inopportune use of air quote marks by •pride in "the people who come to our rallies" - even, apparently, the loons who shout...
...fellow citizens of are addressed as "fellow prisoners" of by •frightening noise is emitted by •Obama's "touchiness" and proclivity for "angry insults" are cited without any sense of irony by •Obama is contemptuously referred to as "that one" by •Obama's support for overhead planetarium projector is repeatedly brought up as if it alone disqualified him for the presidency by •strangers are addressed as his "friends" 22 times in 90 minutes by •yet another commission is proposed...
With the California Academy, a combination research institute, natural-history museum, planetarium and aquarium, Piano is back in stride. What he has produced is a fascinating hybrid of classicism and a romantic view of nature that stretches back to the 18th century. The original museum, a complex of 11 buildings constructed over decades in Golden Gate Park, was badly damaged by the earthquake that hit the Bay Area in 1989. While keeping some of the original Beaux Arts structure, Piano has wrapped it in a finely detailed package of glass and steel...
...what appears from the outside as a serene Cartesian box gives way inside to something ever more complicated. On either side of the building's interior "piazza" are two giant spheres, both sliced at the bottom. One is an opaque steel ball that encloses the 290-seat planetarium. The other, a glass globe, holds a multistory re-creation of a rain forest. This globe in turn sits against a wide glass wall that looks onto the cultivated woodlands of Golden Gate Park, mingling views of rain forest and parkland until this very rational building seems just about overtaken...
...latched onto an issue that affects more Americans more directly than gun violence or Islamic terrorism. The folks in Flint needn't worry overmuch that al-Qaeda will bomb the Longway Planetarium (whose Classic Vinyl laser show begins today), but they can count on getting ill and needing to pay the bills. It's something most Americans worry about; Moore says they shouldn't have to. As he said to AP: "We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world...