Word: portale
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...precisely this question of motivation that is the central one in both cases. It is the pivotal issue, not only because it is the key to the specific truth of what happened at San Quentin and Attica, but also because it is the portal to reaching an understanding of what significance the two incidents hold for those of us surviving, both inside and outside prison walls. It is only through an analysis of the human element of motivation that one can accurately answer the most enduring questions raised by the tragedies at San Quentin and Attica...
...French poet-novelist whose stock in trade is glamorous rebellion. Called in for consultation, the husband really wants to level, but beneath the lacquer of glory he can perceive only one small flaw in himself: "Despite the success of my books, I have no confidence." Through that tiny portal of awareness the analyst enters a hidden emotional hell...
...generally recognized that for two decades Washington has officially regarded Taiwan's status as "unsettled," meaning that its future must eventually be resolved by the political heirs of Mao and Chiang themselves. Peking could eventually decide that, like Hong Kong, an autonomous Taiwan could be a useful portal to the world. With one of the strongest economies in Asia, Taiwan could not only survive but prosper even more by trading with its giant neighbor...
...Cemetery where hundreds of them were buried in mass graves. In Farmington, there is a monument to 16 men killed in Consol No. 9 in 1954. Up the street races a boy whose father died in those same shafts two years ago. Out at the entrance to the Llewellyn Portal-the center of the explosions and fires on Nov. 20. 1968-a wooden frame holds a dozen bouquets put there on the second anniversary of the most recent Marion County mining disaster. The wreaths bear the phrases: "In loving memory," "Sadly missed...
...museum has gone to great lengths to install the sculpture in settings that suggest the churches from which it came. The main entrance to the exhibition is a massive 12th century limestone portal from western France. Grotesque demons, beady-eyed saints, capitals, reliefs and niche ornaments are ranged on piers within a series of specially constructed pseudo-Romanesque arcades...