Word: mayas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Centerpiece of the structure -- conceived by Maya Lin, who designed Washington's Viet Nam Veterans Memorial -- is a round tabletop, 11 1/2 ft. in diameter. On it, along with the 40 names, is carved a chronology of major civil rights events, and over this flows a thin sheen of water, a symbol of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "mighty stream" of righteousness. Said Karen Reeb, daughter of a white Unitarian minister who was beaten to death after he marched with King in Selma, Ala.: "It just eases the emptiness in my heart...
...Maya Lin, the process of creating the Civil Rights Memorial will not only culminate with its dedication in Montgomery this Sunday but will almost certainly thrust her, against her basic wish that her work speak for itself, into the public eye once more...
...feeling of terror quickly passed. The short answer to the question "What ever happened to Maya Lin?" -- a question that makes her bristle -- is that she has been obsessively doing what she likes to do most: she has been working. But what she has done, she has done quietly, as is her nature, shirking the celebrity others might have embraced...
...asking that seemingly simple question, she raises a complex issue that will surely not be resolved until the memorial is dedicated, if then: How will the South in general, and Montgomery in particular, feel about this tribute to a painful time? And will Maya Lin find herself and her work surrounded by controversy once more...
PROFILE: Architect Maya Lin combines water, granite and truth in her newest work...