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...Tombstone sa loon might just as well have been re-christened Elaine's. A minor New York City official in Mayor Lindsay's administration named John Scanlon appears as the bartender, and Dan Greenburg, author of How to Be a Jewish Mother, plays the editor of the Tomb stone Epitaph. They stand out like two polo players at a rodeo...
...Geneva's leafy Ariana park, the Swiss government is building a $15 million expansion of the Palais des Nations, the handsome colossus that was the tomb of the League of Nations and now serves as the United Nations' European headquarters. This activity on the part of the Swiss has raised once again an interesting question: Should the U.N. make Geneva or some other city its worldwide headquarters to escape from the grime and crime of Manhattan...
...many years, Egyptologists have puzzled over a major archaeological riddle. If each pharaoh built a pyramid for use as his own tomb and his eventual ascension to the sun, why are there more pyramids than there were pharaohs? British Physicist Kurt Mendelssohn believes that he has discovered the answer. Writing in American Scientist, he suggests that the pharaohs directed the construction of several pyramids at the same time to achieve maximum employment. Building the pyramids, in other words, may have been history's first great public-works project...
...many a nonessential, involved the whole town of Verona in the clash of families, including a market-square fight with tossed oranges. He skipped the implausible intricacies of Romeo's exile and Friar Laurence's muddleheaded planning and then, to simplify the drama of the final tomb scene, dropped the ritual reconciliation of Capulets and Montagues over the lovers' bodies...
...once an earl; the pompadour a king's mistress; sadism originated with the Marquis de Sade. Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...