Word: platform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shrubs and the other natural flora of the courtyard will be integrated into the action, with one character making his entrance by sliding down a tree. A raised platform which runs along two sides of the courtyard will provide an acting surface for more orthodox scenes...
Midway through the opening session of the 21st Communist Party Congress, the January sun broke through Moscow's leaden overcast. Bright rays streamed through the four-story windows of the Great Kremlin Hall and lit up the towering, 20-ft. statue of Lenin behind the platform and the short, round, balding figure at the speaker's stand below. "See!" cried Nikita Khrushchev, a talented ad-libber, thrusting aside his 46,000-word text. "Even the sun favors us. Nature smiles on the seven-year plan...
Cambridge and Boston citizens and civic groups are preparing formal opposition to a plan that would put apartments, research firms or industrial buildings on a 40-acre platform over part of the Charles River Basin...
They point out that the platform on stilts would virtually destroy the recreational and aesthetic value of the Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent for development...
Several fleets of small boats use the Basin for sailing and Harvard's home crew races are held on a course which starts near the proposed platform site. The esplanade on the Boston side of the area is the scene of summer concerts and has playgrounds and other recreational facilities...