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cruciform /cru·ci·form/ (kroo´si-form) cross-shaped. cruciform cross-shaped. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Sited on a hill with a direct view to the Washington Monument in the distance, the building's design is based on overlapping spaces drawn through a cruciform courtyard plan. Just as Christ did away with sin through His death, burial, and resurrection, Superman, after saving earth, falls (in a cruciform pose) from space to earth, where his impact "buries" him in a crater, seemingly dead. The most prominent visual icons here are a large, cruciform mold that Barney fills with petroleum jelly and puts through various dissections and gooey collapses, and a huge chunk of ambergris - the fragrant whale spew beloved of perfumers the world over - that's discovered by a gaggle of pearl-diving girls. |
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