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...time, the platform (Jews call it the Temple Mount) had up to seven entrances. Most experts believe the remains of an expansive, carved-stone stairway on the south side of the mount, perpendicular to the Roman street, were once the main entry for common pilgrims. At the foot of the stairs are the ruins of a series of baths, for ritual purification, and small shops, some of which still have hitches for animals...
...from the acclaimed film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But CoCo's recurring nightmare is that on the big night she'll end up showing her, um, wrong side. "I start on a huge platform raised at least two stories off the ground and I have to walk down a stairway, while singing, in five-inch heels," she explains. "My dream is that I trip and start rolling down the stairs, my dress goes over my head and everyone can see my underwear...
Shin created a spacious hall with slabs of virtual stone to house the memorial. Like the rest of Dadaworld, it is a three-dimensional space: visitors use "avatars"--cyberfigures incarnating individual people or characters--to navigate a broad stairway and enter the hall, where pictures of the deceased children hang on the wall. Visitors can click on icons to see more pictures and video clips of the victims or ponder messages left by grieving parents. Parents can even ask to see computer-generated avatars of their children. One father took his avatar son for a walk in the virtual garden...
...flames engulfed the building, the city was lighted by the eerie spectacle, the grand stairway acting like a flume to build the heat. Frightened residents watched into the night until the blaze was extinguished by a violent rainstorm. Next morning the White House was a blackened sandstone shell--but a legend was born...
...ghosts that his father used so successfully to haunt Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race. Though he didn't use the word "liberal," Bush said the vice president represented "the old ways of tax and spend," and sketched a Gore world where a tax collector stooped under every stairway and the gargantuan federal government would awaken and slouch toward your hometown. "For him big government has never really been dead," said Bush. "It has simply been biding its time, waiting for its next chance.... If Gore gets elected, the era of big government being over is over...