Word: pyramidal
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...many years, Egyptologists have puzzled over a major archaeological riddle. If each pharaoh built a pyramid for use as his own tomb and his eventual ascension to the sun, why are there more pyramids than there were pharaohs? British Physicist Kurt Mendelssohn believes that he has discovered the answer. Writing in American Scientist, he suggests that the pharaohs directed the construction of several pyramids at the same time to achieve maximum employment. Building the pyramids, in other words, may have been history's first great public-works project...
...Oxford University scientist, who is also an amateur archaeologist, came to his conclusion during a recent sight-seeing trip to Egypt. Straying slightly off the beaten tourist path, Mendelssohn visited the great pyramid at Medûm, one of the first built by the Egyptians, about 50 miles south of Cairo. Although archaeologists have long ascribed the ruined condition of the nearly 5,000-year-old structure to the pilfering of masonry by subsequent generations of Egyptians, Mendelssohn calculated that most of the stone missing from the pyramid was still near by, lying in huge mounds of rubble surrounding...
...just as the chance is impure -being edited by Liberman's preferences-so too his shapes are not wholly abstract. A disk may allude to the sun, to a breast or to an altar; a triangle to a pyramid or a bird's spread wings. With its vertical masts and calm progression of red, sail-like forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that...
...Western European countries last week were affected by strikes involving not blue-collar workers but professionals near the top of the economic pyramid. In Swedish newspapers, the walkout by a variety of university graduates was called "the luxury strike." To an unsympathetic French press, a work stoppage by members of flight crews from three airlines was "the strike of the rich...
...Irish Liverpudlian in The Reckoning. Sorrier still it is to see the dislocated Hibernians at theirs. For the ancients, there is the public house where they undergo the peculiar process Yeats called "withering into truth." For the film's protagonist, Michael Marler (Nicol Williamson), there is London pyramid climbing-ascending corporate strata by using the bow-and-scrape to superiors and the knee-in-groin against competitors...