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...will see a walled-in grass plot, his only change of scenery from the decaying prison. The cells were built with three-inch slits above the doors for air, but these have been sealed off so the prisoners cannot throw their shit into the corridors. Most of the cells nave no bathroom...
...tall from the ground to the tip of the Angel Moroni's trumpet and encased in 173,000 sq. ft. of gleaming white Alabama marble-the interior does not inspire awe. Divided into dozens of rooms on nine levels, the temple has nothing comparable to the great nave and towering sanctuary of a traditional Christian cathedral. Indeed, the Mormon temple is not built for regular worship (that purpose is served by thousands of local "ward" meetinghouses) but for "temple work"-the performances of various church duties and doctrinal study. To the outsider, its rooms seem to serve function rather...
...undeniable grandeur. An early composition like Still-Life: Bottles and Knife testifies to that. Tuned down to the subtlest inter play of gray over gray, unified by the stippled crust of Gris's opaque and polished pigment, these simple objects acquire the amplitude and severity of a Romanesque nave, and one realizes that when Gris used the word "architecture," he was not using a metaphor: the slanting displacement of the still life, as though seen through rolled glass, suggests a kind of response to structural loading-slippage, compression, shear. What Gris's work lost...
Westminster Abbey had never vibrated to such a rhythm: 2,000 fans clapping as Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, 74, danced and hand-clapped his way down the nave after giving a concert of a dozen new compositions of his own in honor of United Nations Day. Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Edward Heath were among the Ellington loyalists who heard the choir of the Royal College of Music and Swedish Soprano Alice Bobs sing lyrics never to be found in the Anglican hymnal. "Is God a three-letter word for love," they caroled, "or is love a four-letter word...
...scarlet robes, looking small and bent in the vast nave of London's Westminster Cathedral, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 81. For many of his fellow Hungarian exiles, the frail figure celebrating Mass for them remained an abiding symbol of the cold war. In 1949 Mindszenty was convicted of treason, espionage and black marketing by the Communist regime in Hungary. He spent seven years in solitary confinement, enjoyed four days of freedom during the uprising in 1956 and then, when the Russians returned, remained for 15 more years in seclusion in the U.S. embassy. Since 1971, the former Primate...