Word: pyramidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever-present" Mr. Cullen asked about shots-on-goal ratios, Tommy Murray's separated shoulder and how many of the team members regularly watched "The $10,000 Pyramid." A little self-indulgent, but he'd obviously done some research...
...Apple, you could describe Jerusalem as the apple of God's eye," observed Edward Koch, mayor of New York. Koch was in Israel and in Egypt on an unofficial nine-day tour to see the ancient sights and create a few new ones. Outside the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Giza, he gamely wrapped himself in Arab robes and called for "the toughest camel." Cracked Edward of Arabia as he mounted the snorting beast: "I want to look like Henry Kissinger looked." But the majestic surroundings also left Hizzoner humbled: "Will the ruins of New York City have...
...ceremony is one thing," he says, "but the real life is more." He looks at the wedding party happily posing just inside the gate. The soldiers and the peddler have just reached the pyramid. "What happens in there has nothing to do with what happens outside," he concludes...
Outside the largest gate to the monument in Taipei, a bridal party stops to have its picture taken against the striking white background of the plaza and the pyramid. It is something of a tradition in the city to have wedding pictures taken there...
Several peddlers of cold drinks and ice cream have set up shop, evidently without licenses, outside the huge gate. Their goods are sold from boxes tied to pedicabs and hand carts. Two uniformed soldiers walk slowly from the pyramid entrance across the plaza to the gate; as they approach, the peddlers pack their goods frantically and begin to run--actually run--down the wall outside, to another corner perhaps, to sell goods out of sight of the soldiers. One is not fast enough, or doesn't notice the soldiers until it is too late for him. He is taken...