Word: colosseums
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...When the Colosseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, so will the world." So said the Venerable Bede in awe 1,200 years ago, at the 1st century's most famed amphitheater. The Colosseum, though battered by earthquakes and ruthlessly despoiled by late Renaissance builders who stole its facing stones for the Farnese, Barberini and Venezia palaces, has long been an image of megalithic permanence. Not any more. Last week Roman authorities took the extraordinary step of closing the Colosseum to visitors indefinitely...
...roll. For last year's Great Medicine Ball Caravan, a movie studio even subsidized a festival in order to film it. Not to be out done, Fillmore treats the closing performances at the Fillmore West as if they were the last rites in the Roman Colosseum before the barbarians came to town...
...Italy last summer, I was dismayed and sickened at the unkempt sight of Rome and its historical monuments. It seemed as though the Italians had very little pride in their priceless surroundings. Perhaps one of the things I will most remember about Rome is that while standing in the Colosseum in the midst of newspapers, magazines and watermelon rinds, I watched as a man fed perhaps 30 cats, which were apparently being kept in order to control the rat population...
...story fiber-glass statue of Jesus Christ overlooking the Salvation Gardens! Thrill to gladiator fights in the Colosseum! Climb the Tower of Babel! Disappear into the belly of Jonah's Whale! Pet the animals on Noah's Ark! Ride a slave barge across the Sea of Galilee! Visit Heaven and Hell! All this and more for only $6 a head...
...staff of 40 custodians, but with holidays and sick leave it often happens that only four or five guards are left to patrol the whole area at the height of the tourist season. The superintendent of antiquities-who is in charge of the Forum, the Palatine, the Colosseum, and the Baths of Diocletian and Caracalla-has a diminutive annual budget...