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Died. Frederick Kiesler, 76, visionary architect and sculptor, Vienna-born designer (with Partner Armand Bartos) of Jerusalem's underground Shrine of the Book, who is also credited with fathering off-Broadway's theater-in-the-round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) as a sparrow, Kiesler spent his life seeking "a continuously flowing world" in such structures as his free-form 1934 "Endless House," which had "no beginning and no end, like the human body...
NORTH-SOUTH ALL-STAR SHRINE FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 4:30-7:30 p.m.). From the Orange Bowl in Miami...
Undertakers' Upholstery. As a pantheon, the Abbey is an incredible clutter. After a shrine was built to honor Edward the Confessor in the Abbey, British nobility rushed to be buried there. As a result, visitors today bump into tombs at every turn. William Morris called the funereal sculptures (see overleaf) "pieces of undertakers' upholstery." Ruskin labeled them "ignoble, incoherent fillings of the aisles...
...PROPERTIES DEPARTMENT "reminded me of a shrine in the Catacombs," says Bowman. "I saw sacroiliacs, cervical vertebrae, skulls, everything." Props even supplied butcher paper for leg-shaped packages to be placed on counsel tables-keeping jurors in suspense through the trial. "Everyone knows that a trial is a drama," chortled the Colonel, "but few lawyers act on this knowledge. We follow through...
From all this, Hawkins assumes that Stonehenge was the focal point of an early British civilization. It was the calendar by which the Britons planted and harvested their crops, a shrine where they worshiped their gods and buried their dead. It was also a device that priest-rulers could have used to enhance their power. On the day or night that their stone computer predicted an eclipse, they might well have summoned their subjects to Salisbury Plain to observe a spectacle that terrorized most ancient peoples. When the eclipse started, the priests probably intoned the prayers that enabled...