Word: mausoleum
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...what seems an eternal freeze; Chopin thudding in the background; gray-coated soldiers marching stiff legged like a row of A's; a body laid out like a doll atop a hill of red and white flowers. Familiar sites: the House of Unions, the Historical Museum, the Lenin Mausoleum. Familiar rituals: foreign dignitaries solemnly shaking hands with the new man, giving him the once-over. There is the former leader's widow, the first chance for a closer look at her. What codes can be deciphered in the eulogy? Which Politburo member is standing where? These funerals have been...
...years with TIME, checked the new Politburo lineup during the televised funeral and interviewed Muscovites for their reactions to the change of leadership. Under a gray sky shimmering with tiny, faint snowflakes, and armed once again with his binoculars, Amfitheatrof watched Gorbachev, now the Soviet leader, atop the Lenin Mausoleum. "He looked somber but strikingly youthful and tough," says Amfitheatrof. But reporting on Gorbachev's accomplishments, life and health will not be Amfitheatrof's concern. He is leaving the Soviet Union for a new TIME assignment in Rome...
...idealist. Covington, Tyzack and Haig (imported from the Royal Court Theater in London, where Tom and Viv was first produced last year) perform admirably in better roles, ones with a little shading, irony and spunk. Max Stafford- Clark's direction fills the stage at Manhattan's Public Theater with mausoleum air and anguished pauses: if this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space...
...biting was the cold in Moscow's Red Square that the crack battalions of troops standing at attention seemed to sway slightly as soldiers moved from one leg to the other trying to keep warm. Looking down from atop the Lenin Mausoleum, members of the Politburo of the Communist Party tugged at the earflaps of their thick fur hats and pulled their coat collars tight. They had braved -7 degrees F weather last week to pay tribute to the late Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov and to witness the sealing of his ashes in a burial niche in the Kremlin wall...
With each passing year the Nov. 7 parade before a lineup of Kremlin leaders atop the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square has come to resemble a mystery play rather than a military pageant. Leonid Brezhnev died only three days after he made a faltering appearance in biting weather in 1982. His ailing successor, the late Yuri Andropov, gave hints of his imminent demise when he failed to show up for last year's ceremony. This year it was Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov who was missing. Questioned by a Western reporter, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin allowed that Ustinov...