Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost every respect, it staggers the imagination. Built at a cost of $250 million by the Atomic Energy Commission, it sprawls over 6,800 acres of prairie land near Batavia, Ill., 30 miles west of Chicago. Its principal feature is a circular tunnel four miles in circumference. For every minute of operation, it requires around 1,400 gal. of cooling water. Using it for a single experiment will demand the services of dozens of scientists and technicians, countless hours of preparation and expenditures of many thousands of dollars...
...which "a modernist presence has taken shape." Kitaj's room is a bizarre assemblage of model lighthouses, smokestacks, machined bas-reliefs of railway trucks, photographs of "The Father of Aviation" together with "The Mother and Daughter of Aviation." There is even a 6-ft. diorama of a mine tunnel with a mouth that is inscribed with uplifting Victorian mottoes...
...which lumber into slowly gathering momentum, the Concorde has a sprinter's start. I was pushed gently but firmly into my backrest. From the rear of the plane I could see the nose leave the ground, tilting upward and upward until the fuselage looked like a tipping tunnel of love. From the inside, the noise was no louder than that of a normal jet. We were off the ground in seconds and climbing at a sharp angle...
...trains moving again. They rushed through the sixth bill in the past four years to head off national rail strikes. Certainly not the least discommoded victims were 18 Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus elephants, which were marched 13 miles from South Kearny, N.J., through the Lincoln Tunnel and into Manhattan for a scheduled performance...
...citizens one from the other and each from himself. The urban river, says Jones, "is the memory bank of all past bodily errors, assaulting the most carefully bathed, sprayed, spayed and pressed." To Jones' eye, despoliation, like nearly everything else in Drifting, can be delightfully ambiguous. The Lincoln Tunnel reminds him of an extended lavatory wall; there is fascination in the waverings of tin cans, tires and old shoes under a few inches of water...