Word: tsunamis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation that would become familiar to her. She taught at the school at which she studied, London's Architectural Association, and kept winning big competitions but building only small projects, like restaurant interiors and a fire station, until 1994. That year she was engulfed in another tsunami of publicity when she won the international competition for the opera house in Cardiff, Wales. Almost as soon as her victory was announced, the controversy began. An outspoken Arabic woman proposing an intellectually demanding, uncompromising design in a Britain in which the future king publicly bemoaned the lack of pretty, traditional buildings...
...have paid special attention to great, S-shaped twists of plasma called sigmoids that they now believe are an early stage of CME formation. Find a sigmoid, and within a few days you'll probably see an explosion. Since it takes an additional four days for the solar tsunami to reach Earth, you can double today's early-warning time...
...Lausanne. Tsutsumi lined up 19 Japanese corporations, and together they contributed $20 million to build Samaranch's hall of fame. Tsutsumi was awarded the Gold Olympic Order, and Nagano was eventually awarded the Games, by four votes out of 88 total. On 60 Minutes, Helmick said of the Tsutsumi tsunami, "There's nothing wrong with Japanese industrialists donating millions of dollars to Samaranch's project. There is something wrong with Samaranch or someone else on the I.O.C.--and I'm not saying it happened--turning around and voting for Nagano because of it." Samaranch, as is his habit, said money...
...with some subtle variations. The listener is left wondering what will happen next, as "Anthropod" demonstrates the tremendously effective element of surprise in Hovercraft's music. The track continues with a few pseudo-build-ups, each dissipating before reaching a climax. Unexpectedly, the drums and guitar rip into a tsunami of sound and grinding samples, which is quite startling but seems to lack the adrenaline rush of the initial climax. The song then predictably fades into another quiet interlude, except this time the tranquil monotony spans almost four minutes without a single break...
...First, a tsunami inhales. The water that once caressed the shore is sucked away; fish flop gasping in unexpected air; harbor boats are dashed to splinters on the sudden sand. For five minutes or perhaps 30, the sea is empty as the great wave rolls in. Out in the deep it was no more than a foot high, swift and imperceptible; now, forced into standing straight by the ascending slope of the ocean floor, it is 20 feet. Or a hundred. And it will pound down on places the gentle tides have never touched...