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...ballet opens in Dracula's crypt, where no less than 18 brides begin a hypnotic dance with their arms outstretched in positions of lifeless submission. The brides are attired in gauzy white gowns with pale blond wigs, their bodies an unnatural shade of white. The highlight of the first act is when the brides fly across the stage apparently effortlessly, a stunt which garnered audible gasps from those sitting around me. But I found the cleverest moment of the ballet to be when the brides ran across the stage, holding the top layer of their gowns up like...
When he died of a heart attack in 1955, he was mourned by the world and buried as a national hero in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Although Fleming's scientific work in and of itself may not have reached greatness, his singular contribution changed the practice of medicine. He deserves our utmost recognition. At the same time, we must bear in mind that the "Fleming Myth," as he called it, embodies the accomplishments of many giants of antibiotic development. Fleming is but a chosen representative for the likes of Florey, Chain, Domagk, Selman Waksman...
Outside DeLay's office, Justin Brown worked at the little gift shop right off the Crypt. "The first thing I heard was a big boom," he says. "I looked to my right. I saw a guy with a gun. The first thing I thought was 'Duck!'" Brown says more shots were fired in a matter of seconds. "It was like a running gunfight." He saw the flash of a gun, then saw Chestnut on the ground bleeding heavily. "Officer down!" someone shouted. Angela Dickerson, a 24-year-old tourist from Virginia, was wounded in the face and shoulder...
...doors, dressed in khakis and a hat, and tried to go around the metal detectors. Hold on a minute, Chestnut said, moving to stop him as he tried to barge through. Weston pulled out a revolver and shot him in the head, then ran down the hall toward the Crypt, the busy crossroads directly beneath the vast Capitol Rotunda. Tourists began screaming, "He's got a gun!" and dropped to the floor, grabbing children, rolling behind columns, trying to get smaller. Weston came to a door marked PRIVATE: DO NOT ENTER. It was the back door to House majority whip...
Inside, the cathedral is a monument to enormity, befitting the religious ecstasies of Gothic architecture. It is both a functioning church, a crypt--the remains of Christopher Columbus, who died more than 100 years before Harvard was founded, are said to lie here--and a treasure house of art and reliquaries...