Word: mausoleums
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...facade of the department store GUM would cost a U.S. firm (might it interest Wrigley's?) $400,000. The Moscow historical museum is available (possibly the spot for an IBM ad on random-access memory?) for $250,000. Lenin's marble mausoleum is respectfully excluded from the deal, but two slogan-bearing blimps (for a cold-storage company?) floating above it will go for $60,000 each. A few firms nibbled last week, but none bit. The lead time may turn out to be too short for signing contracts and getting big American ads up by May Day. Even...
...grand thoroughfare, there is a legend: "Main Street Marching Band, leading the parade since 1884. Conductors: Michael Eisner, Frank Wells. We work, while you whistle." In fact, Eisner, Disney's CEO, and Wells, the company's president, have headed the procession only since 1984, when they turned Mickey's mausoleum -- a slumbering empire of tranquil theme parks and tepid movies -- into Walt II. Or, rather, Walt 2, for Disney has expanded exponentially, its ambition and energy personified by the two bosses. At 4 a.m. one day last week, each man could be seen wandering the park like a parent wrapping...
...close-up taken in his tomb. It's bad enough that his eponymous city is St. Petersburg again, that statues of him are toppling everywhere and that the country he hammered together is falling apart. Now there are even threats to remove his embalmed remains from the Red Square Mausoleum, where they have lain in state since...
...glance, if only briefly, at a marquee announcing a new American B movie. But at a wall plastered with advertisements and political manifestos, a few stop to listen as members of a small crowd argue the merits of removing Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, from his mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square and burying him in a local cemetery. WE MUST SAVE OUR BELOVED CITY FROM THE CORPSE OF LENIN, reads a sign posted on the wall, accompanied by a sketch of Lenin with horns sprouting from his head. THE CORPSE OF LENIN IS THE CORPSE OF SATAN...
...leftist group responsible for killing an American near the Incirlik air base, outside Adana, during the allied bombing campaign against Iraq. According to the daily Milliyet, the group was planning to assassinate Bush in Ankara with a remote-controlled bomb that was to be planted either in Ataturk's Mausoleum, which he visited, or in a parked car that would explode as the President's limousine left the mausoleum. Maps found by police suggested that explosives were also to have been placed under the lids of sewage drains on the road. A State Department official told TIME that the raids...