Word: portale
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...raked stage is dominated by a pair of 20-foot-high steel panels, each with a portal that can be open or shut. The insides of the panels are serrated, so they can close together as tightly as the vise of Destiny grips its victims. Sets of steel stairs roll in and out. When the panels are separated, we see in back a drop with a huge translucent circular screen, on which mobile projections are thrown from the rear...
...Motto of the Barons de Portal...
...chateau itself, looming against the skies of Languedoc, looks like the scene of a Gothic melodrama. Turkeys roost on the veranda, and assorted dogs and cats prowl the courtyard where lilacs bloom. In an unburied coffin lies the late Baron Léonce de Portal, whose family title dates back seven centuries. The new baron, Jean-Louis de Portal, has been holding off the police at rifle point for more than six weeks...
...last report the gendarmerie were still circling the chateau, the armed children were standing guard, and the baroness was shouting from the upper windows threats of new lawsuits against all who had wronged the noble house of De Portal...
There is still some white resentment in the city, but the tide of protest seems to be ebbing. One white family that has learned to live with the plan is that of Lawyer Donald Ungar, who lives in the middle-class district of West Portal. Ungar's son Kenneth now spends 15 to 20 minutes traveling to a 44-year-old school in a heavily Spanish-speaking area. Its playground is perpetually littered with broken glass. "We'd talk about that school this summer and tears would literally roll down my face." says Carol Ungar. "But my husband feels very...