Word: mausoleum
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...have a chapel and an embalming room, and they cost money," objects one San Diego funeral director. "We have to provide certain things, and so should they." "All we want to do is haul ashes to sea," counters Telophase Attorney Tom Sherrard, "and brokers want to sell plots and mausoleum crypts...
...drive from downtown Oakland (pop. 361,561), averages a meager 6,400 per game. And many of the fans who do show up come from communities half a day's drive away. Annoyed by the lack of support, the A's call their empty stadium "the mausoleum...
Later on in the day, the annual May Day military parade took place in Red Square. In the midst of the proceedings Marshal [Sergei] Biryuzov, commander in chief of our antiaircraft defenses, mounted the reviewing stand on top of the Mausoleum and whispered in my ear. He informed me the U-2 had been shot down; the pilot [Francis Gary Powers] had been taken prisoner and was under interrogation...
...base of one of the smaller cliffs that shot up behind the village. Within a high, cracking adobe wall, crude blocks of plaster marked the rounded mounds that covered the bodies of the poor members of the community. The wealthier ones were placed in a miniature mausoleum, made of adobe, to the rear of the burial ground...
...first law of the true-blue porn movie is the tyranny of the flesh: we dont see the characters in "The Grande Bouffe" otherwise occupied than at the feast, their one obsessive, consuming goal the constant satisfaction of the senses. Locking themselves away from the world in a mausoleum of a house and shedding civilized restraints, Ferreri's cardboard figures are participants in a porn-movie banquet, questers in search of absolute freedom. At their non-stop weekend orgy, food and sex are available in unlimited supply, and as with the Linda Lovelaces and Felicity Splits of the blue-movie...