Word: mausoleum
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...before fleeing to North Africa. Here, too, are buried Ferdinand of Aragon and his queen, Isabella of Castile, who ousted Boabdil in 1492 and later reneged on a promise to allow religious tolerance in their newly conquered kingdom. These days Ferdinand and Isabella must be spinning in their shared mausoleum. For the first time in five centuries the cry of the muezzin can be heard calling the faithful to prayer from atop the first minaret to be built in the city since Moorish times. "This is a homecoming for the Islamic faith," says Malik Abder Rahman Ruiz, president...
...weighty companion book and with the opening of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, a permanent archive and exhibit center. "It was very difficult to get Henri to accept the idea of the foundation," says Delpire, who is director. "He didn't want it to be a museum, or a mausoleum. He only agreed after he was satisfied that it would be entirely open to other photographers and artists." Located on a tiny impasse in Montparnasse, the artists' quarter where Cartier-Bresson spent much of the late 1920s and '30s, the foundation boasts two 60-sq-m galleries, a library...
...remote temporal setting partly because everyone else does, partly because the distant past accommodates their quaint or strained lyric styles; Broadway hasn't sung in a modern pop idiom for almost a half-century. The Street can't decide whether it wants to be a museum or a mausoleum...
...full of fascinating little finds, like a lovely white stone church with a dark green cupola, behind a wall on Bolshaya Ordynka (No. 38). It looks medieval but was built in 1912 by Alexei Shchusev, one of the most prolific architects of his time. He later designed Lenin's mausoleum and the hideous Moskva Hotel near Red Square, with its asymmetrical façade. Shchusev's career embodies the compromises that many intellectuals made during the Soviet period. And the church, now an icon-restoration workshop not officially open to the public, has its own tragic history. It was closely...
...close to the epicenter of capitalism to be abandoned. And the business of making money can be put off for only so long. So the lawyers and brokers and secretaries will go back to offices and trading floors and restaurants that are eerily close to the twisted-steel mausoleum. And they will look away whenever they can. They will come home this week with soot on their shoes, the earth and ash and dust of buildings that no longer exist...