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Wood and Davis helped create EC Comics (E for Educational) and were responsible for much of the art in Tales From the Crypt, Veuls of Horror, Two-Fisted Tales, and the original Med. Although the content in EC Comics was offensive enough to cause the formation of a national Comic Code Authority, the level of artwork was extremely high, with Eisner's influence visible throughout...
Moscow's main attraction for the Communist faithful is the Lenin Tomb in Red Square. Every day, thousands of visitors walk silently past the glass and granite crypt, stare reverently at the dimly lit, waxy-looking corpse guarded by rigid soldiers, then file back into the sunlight. Last week Soviet officials announced that the mausoleum would be closed for the next two months. "Normal repairs," was the explanation. But on what-or whom...
...fashioned evangelistic idea as a "Religious Emphasis Week"; they talk about God only when the students want to. Church-sponsored activities, often organized ecumenically by team ministers of different faiths, rarely stress their denominational origin. At Columbia, the Protestant Office sponsors a student hangout called "The Post-crypt," but Acting University Chaplain John Cannon stoutly contends that it is "not a Christian coffeehouse; it has nothing to do with evangelism...
...long Scroll of Isaiah; the fountain sends a jet of water through an opening in the dome to baptize the exterior tile. Says Kiesler: "It is a purification, just as the Dead Sea sect purified themselves in water thrice daily." Below the sanctuary is a crypt of rubbly red rock, lined with relics that reveal the life of the 2nd century Jewish rebels who fought the Romans from their caves. Emerging from the sanctuary, the visitor travels along a 150-ft.-long roofless corridor. The architects intend this as a period of induced meditation for departing visitors...
...through the chill, rainy afternoon, the simple urn containing the ashes of Jean Moulin was on view at the Memo rial to the Victims of the German Labor Camps near Notre Dame Cathedral. Inside the cement crypt glimmered 200,000 crystal rods-one for each Frenchman who died in the Nazi camps...