Word: timelessness
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...Timeless Place. Last week, after three months of round-the-clock construction, Cooke's Forum opened on schedule. Despite the breakneck speed with which it went up, the colonnaded, Roman-style structure, designed by Los Angeles-based Charles Luckman Associates, is distinguished by its spectator-pleasing efficiency. For one thing, the arena has gone all out for color coding. On their arrival for the opening hockey game between the Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, fans holding yellow tickets, for example, found that they parked their cars in a yellow-designated lot. They entered the arena at a yellow gate...
...greatest Argentine writer, or as one of the greatest Hispanic writers, is inadequate. While criticized for neglecting the national characteristics of Argentina, Borges addresses himself to universal concerns and achieves universal appeal. His South American background contributes to the amalgam of literatures and cultures of which Borges is the timeless, placeless hybrid...
Britain's National Theater is a marriage broker of time: it can wed a present audience to a past play and make them live in timeless harmony. It is also an honor scroll of what makes a repertory group outstanding: fluid ensemble work, resourceful acting, thoughtful direction, intuitive dramatic taste, a sense of purpose and style, a firm guiding intelligence and a zestfulness of spirit. Currently making its first Western Hemisphere appearance with a Canadian tour, the troupe presents three classics from two centuries: Strindberg's Dance of Death and Georges Feydeau's A Flea...
...western end of the drought-parched Tamiami Trail, grass fires burned from horizon to horizon, and the sun was nearly blotted out by the bitter brown haze. Smog shrouded Miami, and acrid smoke choked much of the rest of southern Florida. The magnificent Everglades National Park-the timeless, endless "river of grass"-was drying up like a farmer's mudhole in August, and the smallest spark quickly turned into a blaze...
...privileges) that were taken away from them by the Franco government for having fought on the wrong side of the civil war. Under the fueros, traditionally granted by most Spanish governments, the Basques were allowed to collect their own taxes and run their own local governments according to the timeless, almost tribal, lights of their ancestors-who decided Basque affairs in a council that met under an oak tree in the ancient town of Guernica...