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...preference, Akhenaten is now considered to have been one of civilization's heroes. But at the time his religion was very bad politics. Akhenaten failed; the ancient gods won: The surprise is not that Allen Drury, the Advise and Consent man, has written a book about Akhenaten-a pyramid could be made of books about him and his queen Nefertiti-but that his viewpoint is political...
...tapering buildings, round ones and free forms; dozens have been completed in the '70s. Over them all broods the 110-story Sears Tower, with its pinwheeling arrangement of setbacks. In San Francisco, the 48-story Transamerica building looks like a cross between an oil derrick and the Pyramid of Cheops. The latest statement-if not the last word-is New York's: its shimmering 34-story One United Nations Plaza, designed by Architects Roche/Dinkeloo and opened last month, has taken a form as abstract as a minimal sculpture...
...story pyramid structures that make up Olympic Village are ready to house an expected 10,500 athletes during the competition. Makeshift living modules have been set up on the ground floors to accommodate 1,300 athletes, with the rest scheduled to share the two buildings' 980 comfortably furnished apartments, ranging in size from one to six bedrooms. An 800-meter underground tunnel leads directly from the village to the stadium, both a convenience and a security measure...
...elephant worship. In the eyes of their critics, their appeal is to nostalgia rather than innovation, to complacency rather than initiative. Paul Johnson, biographer of Elizabeth I, argues that "the monarchy is the bastion of the class system. It is very difficult to divorce the monarchical system from the pyramid supporting it, and I suspect the pyramid itself is an extreme embarrassment in the economic and social sense...
...searches. Isis begins with the narrator leaving Isis, the Egyptian goddess of perfect wife and motherhood for reasons left obscure. He goes through a ritual of cutting off his hair and washing his clothes and meets a man who promises him easy wealth. They travel to a country of "pyramids embedded in ice" and the narrator discovers that his companion is a grave-robber. His imagination is inflamed--he has visions of turquoise, gold, and diamonds. But the companion dies and instead of taking a body out of the pyramid, the narrator winds up throwing a body into it. There...