Word: polygon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected to find vestiges of the Rose, which was built in 1587. The team stumbled onto chalk foundations, sloped mortar flooring and, most astonishingly, the base of the stage 6 ft. below the ground. From the debris, scientists have determined that the Rose was a small polygon-shaped theater, just 43 ft. in diameter, with plaster walls and a thatched roof. Viewers sat in tiered galleries or stood in a pit in front of the stage. Among the rubble was a layer of hazelnut shells, possibly the medieval audience's version of popcorn...
...difficult feat with grace. Particularly noteworthy is Leah Nutting as the tyrannical bridge-playing editor Betty Scant. Any writer who has ever suffered under the tyrannical hand of a tasteless editor will marvel at the verisimilitude she brings to her tirades, considering that she has a red polygon perched on her noggin. If only all our editors were so well dressed...
...Starship Chicago, when they are not calling it ruder names. It seems not so much to have risen in the Loop as to have landed there. The outside of the futuristic new State of Illinois Center has three tiers of curving glass setbacks fanning out in a vertically striped polygon. A canopy of pink and white glass panels dresses the base; a sliced-cylinder skylight emerges at the top. Inside, in a light-filled atrium, salmon pink terraces climb for 17 stories around a circular plaza. Glass elevators rise and fall along the outside of two towers. As little Dorothy...
...other two, a program asking contestants to arrange two columns of words in newspaper fashion, and another requiring a reordering of a series of points into a polygon, were much more difficult, said team member Gary W. Sabot...
BRAZIL. Throughout the northeastern area, known as the Polygon of Drought, 21 million people have now endured four years without meaningful rain. As conditions have deteriorated, violence has erupted throughout the hinterland. In the small, cattle-raising town of Monsenhor Tabosa, 1,000 people from the countryside recently sacked a school commissary when the local mayor began distributing rice, beans and flour. Under similar circumstances, 400 angry villagers stormed the local mayor's office in the remote western town of Senhor Pompeu. So far the Brazilian government has spent $800 million to build dams, aqueducts and wells, while trying...