Word: shrine
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...with second-wave Futurist canvases from the same period. Their gravity-defying shapes were intended to celebrate aeronautical motion, but these paintings lack the meticulous artistry that characterized their forerunners. Still, almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci conceived the world's first flying machine, this gallery is a shrine to Italy's aircraft industry, which flourished in the 1930s, sustained by Fascism's colonial ambitions...
Open enthusiasm replaced days of guarded optimism as Hollywood writers streamed out of a Writers Guild of America (WGA) meeting at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium Saturday night. WGA leaders recommended their members approve a contract offer from producers, suggesting a quick - but not immediate - end to the 14-week work stoppage that has crippled the entertainment industry since Nov. 5, interrupting production on television shows like 24 and Grey's Anatomy and costing up to $1.5 billion...
...negotiating committee and the guild's board have recommended the deal to members, and now the voting begins. But over the weekend, two TV writers saying goodnight in the Shrine Auditorium parking lot revealed some lingering confusion over their status. "See ya Monday, man," said one. The other looked back, puzzled. "Wait, it's Wednesday, right...
...minority. While Muharram is important to both sects, it is particularly revered by Shias who stage elaborate processions mourning the death of the prophet Mohammad's grandson in battle - the very event that eventually led to the central schism of Islam. In 2005 a bomb in a Shi'ite shrine in southwestern Pakistan killed 50. Already sectarian violence has taken hundreds of lives in the northern district of Khurram. Leaders are pleading for peace, and security agencies are boosting security at holy sites across the country...
...black boulder. Mok's Morley Road House (Singapore, 1996) blends ancient Chinese garden designs - a koi pond, bamboo hedges - with sharp Modernist forms while blurring inside/outside spatial distinctions. Just so, Bawa's naturally ventilated Ena de Silva House (Sri Lanka, 1960) borrowed from Sinhalese manor houses and Kandyan spaces - shrine room, verandahs - to create something new: an innovative, urban courtyard home with windows that could be used, according to the client's wishes, "for serenading at night...