Word: tombs
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...town world in which he learned the builder's trade and acquired his deep knowledge of the Jewish scriptures. Modern studies have confirmed the good possibility that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem covers the site of his execution and burial. And five years ago, the apparent tomb and bones of the high priest Caiaphas, who presided at Jesus' inquest, were discovered by accident. No doubt future discoveries will continue to increase understanding of that provincial ethos, and there is always the chance that something truly sensational may be found: a complete 1st century manuscript Gospel, the travel...
Adrian Smith is not 17 years old. The British game designer's hormones are about a decade and a half past the raging stage. Yet talk to him about his creation Lara Croft--buxom heroine of the Tomb Raider series of computer games--and his face lights up with a naughty-boy grin. "Lara's changed fairly significantly," he says of her latest outing, Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation. "She's got a bottom now. She's got cheeks. She's smoother. Now she exists just as we first imagined...
...Gamemakers are starting to pull in big names. James Earl Jones, for example, stars in Command & Conquer's latest outing, while David Bowie is the driving force behind the forthcoming Omikron. Indeed, game designers are starting to act like directors--guys like Sid Meier (Alpha Centauri) and Adrian Smith (Tomb Raider) who closet themselves in high-end studios for two years at a time, ceaselessly fine-tuning their grand vision, their masterwork...
...Even more complex, perhaps, is the dilemma posed by the expected crush of tourists at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Built above the site of Christ's crucifixion and tomb, the church has since 1852 been managed according to an uneasy truce imposed on six warring Christian factions by the Ottoman sultan who ruled Jerusalem at the time. Franciscan Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Egyptian Coptic, Syrian and Ethiopian sects each jealously guard their portion of the holy site, according the sultan's rules. But there is only one entrance to the church, which the Israeli authorities fear...
...wearing the face of former Harvard President Charles Eliot--Eliot was the creator of the QRR, after all). The checker's table becomes Cerberus, sternly overseeing the passage of souls (read: diners) from savory-baked life to oak-paneled afterlife. The dining hall proper is like a vast tomb where emptiness oppresses from all sides. The endless rows of uninviting conference tables (sprinkled with too-few friendly round tables) are poorly arranged in the room, crowding diners into the center of the dining hall while leaving them surrounded by several square feet of unused floor. Trapping them in from above...