Word: zigzagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...architect Richard Meier cringe. Fifteen years in the making, the new Getty Center, a complex of museums, gardens, auditorium and art research institute and its uniquely manicured space dotted with fountains, is a cultural mecca. Roughly hewn stones unify the five museum buildings, while the Central Garden's zigzag path leads to a floating maze of azaleas beneath a waterfall. Designed by noted landscape architect Robert Irwin, the elegance of the Central Garden is matched in the stark beauty of the cacti on the South Promontory, inaccessibly placed so that they their spiked, vertical forms resonate with the skyscrapers visible...
...truck he reserved the day before. On April 17, "Kling" returned and spoke with Elliott, Tom Kessinger, a mechanic, and another employee, Vicki Beemer. Kessinger told the FBI "Kling" was accompanied by a heavyset, dark-haired, brown-eyed young man wearing a baseball cap with a blue-and-white zigzag pattern. Kessinger said the man had a tattoo below his left shirtsleeve. At first Elliott said he did not recall a second man, but a day later he agreed that this man was with "Kling." Beemer remembered two men, but could not describe them in any detail...
...evidence from the crash site itself. And so last week the U.S. Coast Guard methodically raked up the debris off Long Island, 16 miles south of Moriches Inlet. Searchers ranged over an area of 240 square miles, neatly subdivided into nine grids. Each grid was systematically combed in a zigzag pattern; every piece of debris, of trash, every personal item and body part was picked up. More than 400 Coast Guard personnel aboard four helicopters, nine cutters and a C-130 plane are taking part in the recovery process. After everything has been scooped and strained...
...movie is based on a 1991 best-selling novel by Irit Linur and follows the zigzag entanglements of Talilah Katz, a thirtysomething advertising executive who fits easily into Tel Aviv's chic yuppie milieu and is representative of the modern, liberated young Israeli women contemptuous of the macho and militaristic values woven through their society. ``A fine movie, well produced and well acted,'' summed up l`Isha, a women's publication, and added, ``For a change, Tel Aviv doesn't look like it is part of a third-world country.'' Fox financed his $600,000 film from government grants...
...UNITA, ITALY: "An invasion is unlikely. Sending in the Marines after a disastrous political and diplomatic zigzag is opposed by the Pentagon and State Department...