Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Rosovsky has made a couple of suggestions about the land. His first idea was to let Pei build his pyramid after all, entirely out of glass, and then move the Afro-American Department in. But that would cost too much. Now Henry says we ought to find some way to use the land to erase his deficit. I suggested an amusement park--I thought we could use the streetcar tracks for some of the rides, and get teaching fellows and grad students to sell tickets, manage the concession stands, etc.--but Henry said we'd just get into more trouble...
...playing the stock market-and some borrowed capital, he bought his first such company in 1964. He quickly sold its principal asset (an office building) for a profit-a practice known as asset stripping-and used the money to finance his next acquisition. By 1968 the Slater, Walker pyramid had grown to 500 firms and Slater's personal fortune had risen to an estimated $10 million. He bought a lavish manor in Surrey and spent long weekends there indulging his passion for chess. In 1972 he provided $125,000 of his own cash as a prize for the world...