Word: mausoleum
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...National Theater just now is that the lavish new quarters on the South Bank of the Thames seem - in the way that culture cathedrals do - to weigh upon the work rather than let it breathe and flourish. A hothouse is required for an arts center, but a mausoleum is what usually gets built...
...Washingtonians consoled by the fact that the candidates have been merely speaking for the country at large. Lord, how the nation hates Washington. Ask any Texan or Vermonter or whomever, and he will chew your ear off about that godless pile on the Potomac, that lobby-choked mausoleum, that fat, besotted . . . and you can throw in tasteless while you're at it. And dull...
...been called the greatest compliment ever paid to a woman. Built 3½ centuries ago by the bereaved Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Chosen of the Palace), the Taj Mahal is perhaps the most extravagant and beautiful mausoleum in the world. Made of shimmering white marble from Rajasthan, its domes and minarets glow so brightly, even in moonlight, that large sections were wrapped in burlap during the most recent India-Pakistan war out of fear that Pakistani aircraft might use it as a beacon...
...Wyoming rancher pointed out that, despite the massive press of uniformed personnel, he had noticed very few weapons. In fact, the only guns he had seen in Moscow were the rifles carried by the two soldiers goosestepping slowly to their posts at the door of Lenin's mausoleum...
Last week thousands of shirtsleeved Chinese patiently queued up in the broiling Peking sun to visit the pagoda-like structure on Tian'anmen Square that contains the earthly remains of Mao Tse-tung. Inside the air-conditioned mausoleum they divided into two columns and filed past the crystal case in which the embalmed body of the Great Helmsman reposes under a coverlet of red satin...