The huge, white dome poked soothingly above the summer heat-haze like the working end of a gigantic rub-on deodorant. Apparently this was a case of form following function, because when I asked around as to why they had spent forty-five million dollars on a dome, I was told it would keep Houston's sports fans from getting so damp and sweaty.
- Larry McMurtry (1965, describing the Astrodome)
