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Back in the 1950s, twin colossi sat astride the Hudson, figuratively glowering at each other: Betty Friedan in Grandview on the West Bank, writing The Feminine Mystique , and John Cheever in Scarborough on the East Bank, writing the Wapshot books and the short stories.
Reliefs carved on Ramses’ thrones depict the Nile gods, and in a niche between the two central colossi is a small statue to the god Ra-Herekhty (Ra the sun god combined with Horus) with whom Ramses shares the temple.
She, too, is deified and in a façade of six colossi 111/2 m (38 ft) high stands at equal height to her husband — a very rare honor for a consort in Egypt — though his statues outnumber hers by 2:1, a more subtle indication of his supreme power.
The four monumental colossi of Ramses II that frame the entrance stand 20 m (65 ft) high and they are aligned to face the rising sun, to be infused with the energy of the sun god each day.
It's played amid the cornfields of the Midwest by lanky boys with flaxen hair and 'twixt the housing projects by the troubled shores of Coney Island, where otherwise powerless young African-Americans bestride the courts like colossi.