Word: mausoleums
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...just hope poor Harry doesn't get too upset the next time Rudenstine holds a fundraising cocktail party in his mausoleum...
...just hope poor Harry doesn't get too upset the next time Rudenstine holds a fundraising cocktail party in his mausoleum...
...died on Sept. 2, 1969, at the age of 79, some six years before his battalions surged into Saigon. Aspiring to bask in the reflected glory of his posthumous triumph, his heirs put his embalmed body on display in a hideous granite mausoleum copied from Lenin's tomb in Moscow. They violated his final wishes. In his will he specified that his ashes be buried in urns on three hilltops in Vietnam, saying, "Not only is cremation good from the point of view of hygiene, but it also saves farmland...
...where leaders customarily inspect their People's Liberation Army troops--is a virtual monument to People Power in the abstract. Its western edge is taken up by the Great Hall of the People. Its eastern side is dominated by the Museum of Chinese Revolution. The Mao Zedong mausoleum swallows up its southern face...
...Gone are the playoff months spent watching the 'real' teams battle it out." Somewhere the theme from 'Rocky' has begun playing, slowly increasing in volume... "Two years ago the Mariners' first playoff run gave the city a newfound yearning for the hardware, the Kingdome was transformed from a concrete mausoleum into a thundering homefield advantage...