Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trappings were poignantly familiar-the flag-draped gun carriage inching down Constitution Avenue, the throngs filing past a casket in the Capitol Rotunda, the millions pausing before their television sets to watch a hero laid to rest. To a nation that has lately witnessed all too many such occasions, the funeral of Dwight Eisenhower had a significant difference. It was not an occasion for grief over a life tragically foreshortened by an assassin's bullet but an opportunity to pay homage to one who had served his country and had died in peace, his work completed...
...theatre in which Blood Knot is being given is a relic from the age of movie palaces. A second-story rotunda gapes above the lobby and fleurs-delis peel from the dome over the stage. There are new pastel stripes painted on the lobby floor, but the heart of the place is in decay. So the theatre, and so the Country...
...escaped disfiguration during the 19th century industrial revolution that blighted England's cities but bypassed Ireland, in part because of its disastrous famines, in part because of its own preoccupation with its more romantic national affairs. The Bank of Ireland (once the Irish Parliament), the Four Courts, the Rotunda, Leinster House (where the Parliament now sits) are monuments to a gracious age. Even the railway stations, when at last the railway came, are beautiful. Dublin, too, has some horrendous slums, but from them emerge some of the most beautiful-and dirty-children in Europe...
Orphan Annie's Eyes Peripheral actors, too, play poignant roles in Manchester's panoply. The eight-man military casket team that carried Kennedy's coffin up the 36 steps into the Capitol rotunda on Nov. 24 was astonished at its weight and nearly dropped it. That night they were terrified at the thought of the next day's funeral procession, when they would have to carry it down again. The officer in charge ordered a coffin from Fort Myer, had it filled with sandbags, and at midnight took his team to the Tomb of the Unknown...
...funeral chamber" is hung with orange velvet to emphasize the soft transparency of huge alabaster jars. A small rotunda with illuminated parchments re-creates the atmosphere of paintings on tomb walls. The primeval marshes where, according to Egyptian belief, the world began and the dead person's metamorphosis took place, are evoked by a wall of papyrus, which in turn gives way to the dramatic climax of the show: the great funeral mask with its blaze of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise. Altogether, it is small wonder that in the first 20 days, some 180,000 Frenchmen have...