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...sites were also built on a fairly modest scale: the Great Pyramid at La Venta, a site that arose around 800 B.C., is just 100 ft. high, about half the size of the tallest Mayan pyramid at Chichen Itza. Still, each Olmec site was laid out according to a preconceived plan, a fact that reflects both the people's religious beliefs and a fairly sophisticated knowledge of engineering. All the mounds at La Venta, for example, are oriented precisely 8û west of north...
...back 400 years, to Piero della Francesca's Madonna del Parto, to find a painted human figure of such monumental gravity. All is volume, all is power, not only the large masses--the head that seems hewn from some skin-colored rock, the torso and the flaring blue pyramid of the skirt, the cylindrical coffeepot and the cup with the spoon set vertically in it--but also the microforms, such as the knot tying the woman's apron at her waist, which has the finality of a turned lock. The poetry of this image isn't in expression...
What's more, as the time for accounting came up, people might even bring in the bag of newspapers gathering dust in their rooms or the ready-to-collapse pizza box pyramid down to the recycling room. The last-ditch effort to bring the number down might turn into a massive room cleaning, beneficial to students for hygiene purposes if nothing else...
Soon after her death, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, which oversees public transportation in the area, released internal documents to show it had tried for more than eight years to get the mall owners, the Syracuse-based Pyramid Companies, to allow the No. 6 bus to stop in the mall's parking lot. A Pyramid official blames the N.F.T.A. for not moving the bus stop to a safer spot on the mall's perimeter. But a former owner of a shoe store at the Galleria came forward to say that in his lease negotiations with the mall, a Pyramid official...
...People should look to the 'food pyramid,'" Rimm said. "[It] helps you get away from focusing on just one component of the diet or another...