Word: tombful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forays into the city was during the summer of '89, which he spent getting to know some of the people who live in Cairo's City of the Dead. He was interested in the social networks that exist among the people living in poverty in the city's old tombs. The work he did eventually became a photo essay and an article(for Harvard's Development Forum) in which he was able to show, in this neglected part of Cairo, the existence of a healthy fabric of human community. All were photos taken in the City of the Dead; there...
...SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORDER NOW!), while others warned that resistance is already building to the hardships reform will entail, especially inflation and unemployment (FOOD IS NOT A LUXURY, PROTECT OUR JOBS!). Mikhail Gorbachev, who must reconcile that contradiction in the months ahead, left the reviewing stand atop Lenin's tomb, as jeers rose from the crowd below...
...laborers. But Trump cedes nothing to the original structure. He claims to have built "the largest (and most expensive) casino resort, convention center and entertainment complex constructed at one time," a great, glittery gumdrop on the Atlantic Ocean. India's Taj is, after all, just a tomb...
...corner lies a new grave, the bare earthen mound not yet pounded flat by rain. A miniature Christmas tree, a few cheap ornaments clinging to its brown branches, adorns the tomb. Two tiny Santas in plastic bags, a mud- spattered price tag still attached, poke up out of the dirt. No plaque marks this resting place, perhaps betraying a neglect born of the longing to forget...
...there it was...a big Minoan mason's mark all over the facade of the tomb. It was the first time we ever understood that Cretan architects were building Greek tombs for Greek princes," says Vermeule...