Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Water Polo at Easterns (Blodgett Pool...
...last month, Bob Dole stood at the Rainbow Pool on the Washington Mall and, in a most moving address, announced the launch of a $100 million campaign to build a World War II memorial. Right there...
...Rainbow Pool, lying serenely between Lincoln and Washington, is one of the most exquisite points along this pristine vista. A monument of any kind would violate its openness and delicacy. A World War II memorial would crush...
...very fragility of the site led the American Battle Monuments Commission to demand an unintrusive, topographically friendly design. And it got one: two arches of 25 columns each, facing each other like parentheses around the Rainbow Pool, with large earthen berms sloping to meet the ground behind...
Aware that the design required to accommodate the Rainbow Pool must necessarily betray the scale and grandeur of the war, the planners try to finesse the problem. They provide a large, covered exhibition area--suitable for exploring the larger historical, cultural and, of course, military story of the war--to accompany the memorial, housed partly underground beneath the massive earthen berms...