Word: basin
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...side. Blue is everywhere: deep ultramarine in her skirt and sleeves, lighter blue in the cloth on the table, whose tone rhymes with the rolling bar of the map on the wall--a recession of precisely judged color echoes. It is also reflected in the pitcher, whose basin gathers beneath its rim an exquisitely ordered mosaic of reflections from the tabletop. And then there is the white cotton that drapes her head and shoulders, whose every starched plane and level of translucency is observed, light filtering through a small, soft structure that's as satisfying as one of Cezanne...
...Lake Superior will be gone, and its islands will be wooded buttes rising above the fertile coulees of the basin. A river will run through it, the Riviera River, and great glittering casinos like the Corn Palace, the Voyageur, the Big Kawishiwi, the Tamarack Sands, the Clair de Loon, the Sileaux, the Garage Mahal, the Glacial Sands, the Temple of Denture, the Golden Mukooda will lie across the basin like diamonds in a dish. Family-style casinos, with theme parks and sensational water rides on the rivers cascading over the north rim, plus high-rise hotels and time-share condominiums...
...world looks upon all these resources and salivates. Texaco, Exxon, Amoco, Norsk Hydro and other transnational oil companies are setting up joint ventures to tap into the enormous oil and gas reserves scattered through Siberia, including the Timan Pechora basin above the Arctic Circle (where the recoverable reserves are estimated at nearly 4 billion bbl.). Canadian, American and other Western mining companies are prospecting for gold and other minerals. Norwegian and Japanese interests are negotiating to increase shipping between Europe and Asia by way of arctic waters north of Siberia...
Johnson was only one of a legion who wanted their hero to be put in marble and bronze in momentous proportions, a project that has been frustrated ever since F.D.R.'s death on April 12, 1945. In 1969 L.B.J. designated 27 acres along Cherry Tree Walk in the Tidal Basin-between the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials-as a park for a Roosevelt monument. One earlier design had been ridiculed as "instant Stonehenge" and dumped in 1960. Two other attempts also faltered...
...press conference yesterday afternoon, Gov.William F. Weld '66 said he was grieved by thehelicopter crash, which is the first in StatePolice air-team's 26-year history. "This is thefirst accident involving a state policehelicopter," Weld said, speaking at an impromptupress gathering at the Lower Basin policeheadquarters, "We will all work hard to make sureit is the last...