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...Khrushchev snarled: "What would happen to the U.N. if you do not admit China and if we were to go away from the U.N.-we, the socialist countries-and if we were to organize our own U.N. . . . This is what would be the burying ground of the U.N.-its tomb. There would be no more U.N. but only blocs of states that are at war with each other. We do not wish that...
...brushes a golden hair from the lapel of an employer whose brunette wife is impatiently awaiting him. He uses exactly the right tone of gentle authority when informing distraught young ladies that his master is not at home. Family secrets are locked inside his impassive exterior as in a tomb...
...earlier periods of Egyptian civilization, stone images of human beings were destined mainly for the tomb, and they were given a benign and introspective expression suitable for the spirit world. But in the Late Period, sculpture was intended for the temple and was meant to be seen by worshipers. Late Period sculptors tried to endow their statues with features that reflected the character and inner life of a specific person. The face of the Woman in Ecstasy (see color) is suffused with bliss as she tilts her vividly sculptured head upward, her eyes wide and her lips parted. Such sensuality...
...cant help it." He kept a private poet and had him crowned at an elaborate public ceremony, once brought a lion from New York and invited the public to his house to look at him, "nine pence, each person." Long before his death, he had an elaborate tomb built on his grounds and enjoyed sitting in it during the heat of the day. But he made his most glorious splash when he had a local artist carve some 40 lifesize wooden figures, including one of himself, which were scattered around his grounds and became the town's most irresistible...
...Israelites invaded the Holy Land about 1200 B.C. Dr. Pritchard not only bought the pots but hired the woman as his "consultant." After a little coaxing she took him to her tomato patch on top of the mound, showed him a hole leading to a rifled Bronze Age tomb. More coaxing persuaded her to probe with an iron rod (a traditional tool of grave robbers) and show the archaeologist a series of circular stones covering more tombs...