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Dizengoff's settlement of Tel Aviv (The Hill of Spring) far exceeded even his expectations. Today greater Tel Aviv, one of whose main streets is named after Dizengoff, has a population of 1,200,000. It has swallowed up Jaffa, crowned its busy industry with smog as thick at times as Los Angeles, and generated so much crime that tough border police have been retrained and reassigned to Tel Aviv to cut down robberies and street violence...
...than the earth is, Sagan explains that Titan's atmosphere must be producing a significant "greenhouse effect"-that is, trapping more heat under its clouds than it radiates back into space. He speculates that those clouds may consist of rust-red organic compounds floating in a thick atmosphere of hydrogen, methane and ammonia coughed up by volcanic eruptions. Exposed to the sun's radiation, the gases could form into complex organic compounds, including sugars, purines and even amino acids. Such a mix of ingredients is akin to the primordial "soup" that is believed to have given rise...
...thereabouts-she will never say-Dietrich looks 70 or thereabouts, appearing older in person than she does on the stage. She sometimes wears thick glasses; lines radiate from her mouth, and when she sits, something she never does in public, there is a slight bulge around the middle. Still, she is a very good-looking 70, and her magnificently alluring voice is ageless. If she no longer looks like Cocteau's Lorelei, she still sounds like her-or the Lola Lola of The Blue Angel and the Frenchy of Destry Rides Again. That alone may be enough to make...
...warm massive curves, goes back to medieval Siena. The immense cylinders, arcs and courts at Dacca were inspired by the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. At times, Kahn's forms possess a superb and primal practicality. The Ahmedabad dormitories, for instance, with their stairs set in a thick vertical silo flanked on either side by dark openings, are both a celebration of the sun and a defense against it. Structure is to architectural history as history is to instinct. The unique power of Kahn's work is to excite one's participation on all levels...
Inside the stadium, the Miami fans had a clear majority. Their bright orange and blue colors stood out better than the Redskins' burgundy and gold in the thick haze which enveloped the stadium. They waved white handkerchiefs and rolled long banners whenever the Dolphins gained yardage...