Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, we mourned the departure of the original Tommy from his Mount Auburn Street shrine to grease and raspberry-lime rickeys. But we survived. The new owners kept the grease and rickeys coming, along with the infamous service. Sure, we saw the new pizza ovens and the mice running under them, but it was still Tommy...
Music: A new Ring cycle at Bayreuth, the Wagner shrine where strife...
James is right that the Hall of Fame, like the Miss America Pageant or the Mount Rushmore sculptures, was essentially a Chamber of Commerce inspiration to lure tourists. But when the Hall opened in 1939, it became a secular shrine, the Lourdes of baseball. It still is. The place evokes a simpler time of grace and grit and innocence, when players didn't seem so greedy or owners so stupid and when both sides apparently realized that the franchise they held was on loan from the fans who had invested so much of themselves in it. This vision is partly...
...tell the whole story. They want to stop the story when the bomb leaves the bomb bay." Crouch and Neufeld's proposed display includes a "Ground Zero" section, described as the emotional center of the gallery. Among the sights: charred bodies in the rubble, the ruins of a Shinto shrine, a heat-fused rosary, items belonging to dead schoolchildren. The curators have proposed a PARENTAL DISCRETION sign for the show...
...years of Grand Prix competition, the Brazilian had won 41 races and three world championships. Senna would be mourned officially for three days, declared President Itamar Franco. On the flight home from Europe, Senna's coffin, curtained off in the business-class section, had already become a shrine as passengers came up and knelt beside it in prayer. Later, as he was being laid to rest in Morumbi cemetery, planes of the Brazilian air force twisted overhead, drawing a giant S and a heart...