Word: mausoleum
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...Minh City, the airport is fringed by old bomb craters and littered with the hulks of U.S. transport planes. In Hanoi, the capital, the memories of war are cherished in details large and small. At the War Museum, a once stately mansion located near the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, visitors gaze upon such relics as the ID cards of captured American pilots, pieces from a downed U.S. B-52 bomber, and the T-54 tank that first breached the gates of Nguyen Van Thieu's Independence Palace in Saigon in 1975. At a nearby carnival, the most popular game...
When the coffin reached Red Square, it was placed, with its lid removed, on a red-draped bier facing the Lenin Mausoleum. Three battalions of cadets from the three services stood at attention. Remarked the TV announcer describing the scene to a nationwide audience: "The most important goal of the last decade of his life was detente. Of course, he was deeply disappointed by the sharp change of policy of the U.S." After speeches by Andropov, Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, Academy of Sciences President Anatoli Alexandrov and a factory worker, pallbearers led by Andropov on the left and by Premier...
...falloff in rail travel had turned the white granite building into a mausoleum. The railroads were eager to raze it and put up an office building. There was no longer any need for a station that could support crowds of 175,000, as it had during World War II, or a staff of 5,000 to operate the city within the station: bowling alley, mortuary, bakery, butchery, YMCA hotel, ice house, resident doctor, liquor store, Turkish baths, first-class restaurant, basketball court, swimming pool, nursery, police station and silver-monogramming shop...
...Friedrich staging of Parsifal, produced in honor of the opera's centenary, is a deeply pessimistic view of Wagner's valedictory ode to the redemptive power of Christianity. Colored in stark blacks, whites and grays, it takes place in what appears to be a gigantic mausoleum. More radical was Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's Tristan, new last year. Ponnelle has staged the last 40 minutes of the work, including Isolde's famous Liebestod, as the hallucination of the dying Tristan, who has been abandoned by his beloved. Now Bayreuth may really have seen everything...
Once again Leonid Brezhnev confounded the doomsayers who had placed him at death's door since he reportedly suffered a stroke five weeks ago. Making his second public appearance in nine days, the Soviet President stood for 1 ½ hours on the reviewing stand atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square to watch the annual May Day parade. Wearing a gray overcoat and fedora as protection against a drizzling rain, the 75-year-old leader looked wan and weary as he waved weakly at the tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who marched by carrying banners, artificial flowers...