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...especially haunting watercolor: children dressed in red and blue appear on a playground, fenced off from the adults in the black and gray street who have been reduced to figures out of Munch's "Scream"-both elongated and hunched with hollow eyes. Shortly after the burial of her father, a railroad clerk, Neel painted "Dead Father" (1946): a gentle-looking man, slightly too stiff to be asleep, lies in the bed of his coffin...
...tomb that others had already explored, Hawass spied an opening in a chamber wall. When he and his team excavated the rubble that lay beyond, they found anterooms filled with paintings of religious scenes and inscriptions from the Book of the Dead. In the adjacent burial chamber, which swirled with a yellow powder reminiscent of Hawass's dream, they discovered a limestone sarcophagus. When they dusted off the lid and uncovered the famous name Zed-Khonsu-efankh, Hawass recalls, "we all screamed...
...never used. The gunmen are described simply as "Arab." Indeed, at the time of Munich, the Palestinians were still a forgotten people and Israeli prime minister Golda Meir was notoriously insisting they did not exist. Vilified throughout the Western world, his slain comrades were nonetheless given a heroes' burial by thousands of supporters in Libya. For Spitzer and his colleagues, their countrymen and millions of sympathizers, it was a senseless act of brutality...
...home, only to find out after she moved in and got sick that the place was infested with a highly toxic mold and required a $650,000 cleanup, with men in moon suits cutting out every piece of mold-infested timber, wallboard and carpeting and carting it off for burial as toxic waste...
...most of them to board a cruise to the Caribbean--were remembered at the crash site late in the week by family members, who, in their sadness, leaned on one another and knelt on the ground, sifting the sand. Air France gave each family roughly $20,000 and covered burial and counseling expenses...