Word: sunkenness
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...center featured two 175-seat movie theaters, multilingual information desks, a "First Ladies of America" exhibit, a national bookstore and a Hall of States. Its centerpiece was an 8,000-sq.-ft. sunken area called the "Primary Audio-Visual Experience." Critics soon renamed it "the Pit." At a cost of $1.5 million, the Pit housed a large screen that flashed a nine-minute musical slide show called the "Welcome to Washington Presentation...
...start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head." Not that enemies have to be great in physical stature; small people often make the very best. It is that they must be huge in the imagination, ubiquitous, ready to don disguises or change shape entirely. Perhaps the point that Satan wished to make by turning into a serpent...
These characters are all placed against the backdrop of a land of illusion and decadence. Alex and Jerry check into the Dr. Zhivago suite at the MGM Grand, complete with sunken bathtub, a mirror over the bed, and a doorbell that plays the theme from the film which gives the room its name. This is Las Vegas in all its tacky splendor, a world which no one in the films seems to take seriously...
...Diebenkorns; it is not hard, for instance, to see ocean in the tract of blue that fills the lower two-thirds of Untitled #50, 1981, or horizon and the vestige of a grass strip in its ruled bars of white and green. The same handwriting pervades them, a sunken geometry of lines scumbled over and hazed with paint, as though bathed in light and vapor. There is a kind of light on Diebenkorn's stretch of coastline-mild, high and ineffably clear, descending like a benediction on the tickytack slopes just before the fleeting sunset drops over Malibu-which...
...eight battleships in the harbor crippled or destroyed, 188 planes demolished and another 159 damaged. When Pearl Harbor survivors and military brass gather next Monday for an anniversary ceremony at the Arizona memorial, the mood will still be somber: 1,102 of the dead were entombed in the sunken hulk of the battleship over which the memorial stands...