Word: plateauing
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...Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Lochan mountains to the Ben Macdui plateau, where your accommodation is constructed. A hole takes about three hours to make and is large enough to sleep nine. "Snow is also a great reflector of light, so once we have the candles dotted around and the stove cooking the evening meal, it's not nearly...
...Crimson turned the ball over 22 times on the evening—the fourth time this season that Harvard has reached the 20-coughup plateau...
...procession of Papua New Guineans, accompanied by a lone white man, was waved through on their way to a ceremony remarkable even in a land used to strange and ancient rites. Near the village of Guava, high in the mountains of central Bougainville, they gathered on a plateau. After a procession of traditional dancers swaying to the music of pan pipes, marching militia and strutting chiefs, two men mounted a stage in the center of the clearing. Bare-chested, in a floral head-dress, grass skirt and neatly cleaned tan boots was Francis Ona, leader of the region's independence...
...winning entry for the Sydney Opera House in 1957, the 38-year-old Dane proved to be as ambitious a choreographer of spectacle as D.W. Griffith or Cecil B. DeMille. Leaving behind the rush and grind of the city, opera-goers would be transported up a 100-m terraced plateau, into gilded pleasure domes worthy of Kubla Khan, with cavernous interiors of blue and silver, red and gold, transporting audiences into ecstasy. But when Utzon left the project in 1966, leaving its completion to a committee of local designers, audiences were left without their climax. Halls were swapped, interiors muted...
...Utzon drew on film footage of Sydney and, being the son of a naval architect, consulted admiralty charts of the harbor; he was struck by the similarity of Bennelong Point to the nearby Helsing?r-Elsinore peninsula, where Shakespeare set Hamlet. What eventually crystallized in his drawings was a raised plateau and airborne structures not unlike sails. In his original plans, the podium would house the backstage business; upstairs, the public spectacle would unfurl. Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition shows quite the opposite. When...