Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After last winter's war, Hamas has been able to use its Egyptian tunnel network to rearm itself with rockets, but that subterranean supply route may soon stop. Backed by U.S. funding and expertise, the Egyptians are pressing ahead with controversial plans to close off smugglers' burrows into Gaza by building a steel wall that runs 100 ft. (30 m) deep along its border. One noted Egyptian newspaper editor, Ibrahim Issa, dubbed it his country's "Wall of Shame...
...best-known clubs - such as Berghain, which Britain's DJ Mag this year named as the world's best club - keep going until the following afternoon. There's always a risk that gentrification will spoil the vibe. One of the biggest haunts in the early 1990s was Tresor, a subterranean space near Potsdamer Platz. The club shut down when the area was turned into a giant shopping mall. The Love Parade, an annual techno festival that drew as many as a million people to the streets of Berlin every summer, took place for the last time there in 2006 because...
Club Passim—a subterranean music venue on 47 Palmer Street, in the heart of Harvard Square—books new and established folk and acoustic acts nightly (and by that I mean every night, seven days a week). It has been a musical institution for over 50 years, since its start as Club 47 in 1958. The venue secured a place in America’s cultural history as an epicenter of the folk movement in the 60s, hosting legends like Joan Baez, like Joni Mitchell, like Tom Rush, Judy Collins, Suzanne Vega, and Bob Dylan...
...play begins. You enter by way of a descent, a wide concrete ramp that slopes down to a glass-walled lobby, one story below ground, made of stark concrete and gray metal, where light swords hang like stalactites from the ceiling. From the time of Orpheus and before, a subterranean journey has had psychological reverberations. This one bears just a hint of a descent into a stony underworld, a primordial cavern that could be the ancient womb of theater - even if you're there just to see Mamma...
...interaction was over e-mail. He asked if we had arranged sufficient interviews. I asked him how many people were on the team. I also wanted to know if I could look at the team’s own archives, somewhere in one of the river houses’ subterranean depths, and he said, “I don’t know if there’s anything to ‘check out.’ Who told you there was stuff in the Adams basement? I have no knowledge/memory of that.” He signed...