Word: mausoleum
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...seems only fitting that Samaras, whose every work alludes in some way or another to his body-by photography and metaphor, by testing it with textures and pains and memory-should have made a narcissist's mausoleum in the form of his Mirror Room: a twelve-foot cube lined with reflecting surfaces, an endless labyrinth in three dimensions. One imagines the artist at home in it, lying perfectly at ease on the crystal floor, his image multiplied to a gratifying infinity...
...through the 17-room creation; many more toured it via television, and will eventually do so again through film. From the outside, "Womanhouse" looked like a home. Inside, however, the feminist art program of the California Institute of the Arts had arranged an exhibit that proved to be a mausoleum, in which the images and illusions of generations of women were embalmed along with their old nylons and spike-heeled shoes...
...this should put Rio far ahead of Nashville, Tenn., where a three-story vertical mausoleum with a capacity of 9,000 bodies is slowly rising at Woodlawn Memorial Park. "We're just coming out of the ground with the second story now," reports Owner H. Raymond Ligon, "and if sales continue to go as well as at present, we'll keep on building...
Dignity. But Evita's travels in life were nothing compared to her travels in death. On the night of Dec. 22, 1955, her body vanished from Buenos Aires' central labor headquarters; it had been placed there after she died of cancer in 1952 while a glass-enclosed mausoleum was being made ready. Rumors had her body thrown into the River Plate by the regime that ousted Perón. There was one report that 25 leading citizens were each given a sealed coffin, sworn to secrecy and asked to bury it. Each of the 25 believed that...
Midas of History. If the Kennedy Center is one kind of mausoleum, the Johnson Library is another. Whatever one may think of the Kennedy Center's design, the concerts and operas will immeasurably enrich Washington life. But the L.B.J. Library has only one function: pharaonic commemoration...