Word: semicircular
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...wildly popular installation in the Great Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London. In a nimble rethinking of the atmospheric sublime, Eliasson mirrored the hall's 115-ft. ceiling, then hung from it a patently artificial but weirdly persuasive "sun" made from 144 yellow lightbulbs behind a giant semicircular screen. Then he pumped the room full of mist. During a six-month run that ended in March 2004, Eliasson's make-believe sky drew some 2 million visitors. A lot of them spent long stretches lying on their backs, gazing blissfully upward...
...part the air with style. Skate parks, which first appeared in the 1970s, started out as places meant to draw skaters away from the respectable concrete of downtown. But those early parks tended to be melancholy stretches of concrete with a few bowls and half pipes--that's a semicircular ramp--thrown in. The merest parking lot was more fun. Over the next decade many of the parks closed, victims of underuse and high insurance costs...
...table area is covered with an ornate Tibetan painting of an intimidating-looking deity stomping on some fools and scaring away the bad mojo. Co-owner Bik Yonjan told me the work came from his father’s traditional art studio in Tibet.There’s a semicircular VIP lounge, separated from the hoi polloi by a curtain of steel beads and decorated with Mandela on the wall and Buddha’s head on a pedestal. It’s unclear what is required to gain entry, but it sure is purdy.Upstairs is also rather well-upholstered...
...winner. The production is budgeted at $6.8 million, and you see at once where much of the money went: the sets. Director Trevor Nunn (Cats, Sunset Boulevard) and designer William Dudley (The Breath of Life, The Coast of Utopia) use ultrasophisticated animated projections on three white semicircular screens. They create a cinematic labyrinth, where the screens spin and whirl, with intricate backdrops that cross-cut, dissolve and move with the characters. When a character is required to climb the stairs to the attic, she only has to walk on one spot while the 'house' sweeps down past her - and when...
...girls claim their corner room is “totally overlooked” in the housing lottery. The spacious suite boasts two singles for the pair and a sizeable foyer—pronounced the French way, of course. But the jewel of the suite is definitely its huge, semicircular common room with gorgeous bow windows and a wraparound window seat. “Aside from our room being so ridiculously big that Maya and I spent an hour just jumping around in it when we first moved in, I love that it has so much charm...it makes it feel...