Word: mausoleum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tree at which the terrorists hid four Kalashnikov machine guns and 15 hand grenades used in the airport attack. The safety plugs for the grenades were still there. He also directed authorities to Paris' Montparnasse Cemetery, where they found a bomb timing device in a toothpaste tube inside a mausoleum...
Celestis plans to contest the charge before a state arbiter next month, arguing that Slayton's space mausoleum is not a cemetery but a transportation system. If the arbiter rules against Celestis, the company may sue Florida or move to Virginia, where the Space Services launching pad will be located. Slayton still hopes to begin his space burials in January...
...title song, Simon says, is not about Elvis Presley or his Memphis home but about a "state of peace." Simon's double edge is at his keenest here, using a country boy's dream mansion, which turned into a mausoleum, as an ironic counterpoint to Homeless, sung a cappella with South African Gospel Group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The rhythms washing over Graceland are infectious and inflective enough to shame rap silly, from the lovely, funky arc of Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes to the spooky snap of The Boy in the Bubble. African musicians appear on nine...
...Victorian bloomers. Fricka ascends to Valhalla by means of a balloon gondola. The Valkyries ride off to war aboard carrousel horses suspended in midair. Wotan puts Brunnhilde to sleep in what appears to be a cluttered attic, full of ungodly bric-a-brac, and she awakens in a starry mausoleum. Siegfried slays the dragon Fafner by chopping at a gigantic crab's claw and then pushing over a flimsy set of painted flats. The forest bird who guides the hero to Brunnhilde is a taxidermist's specimen, carried aloft on a stick by a highly visible soprano...
...projections." But there is another week, and, in gold medals at least, the U.S.S.R. (43) and the U.S. (31) are in moderate range of each other. "I've always been an optimist," the American Georgian said, and proved it again while coming away from a visit to the Lenin Mausoleum. "A little pale," he exulted, "but looks great." Furthermore, Seattle has been selected to host the second quadrennial festival in 1990. In the meantime, Turner will busy himself with documentaries on both the Soviet Union and disarmament. "In the U.S., we're saying things like, 'They're an evil empire...