Word: monolithism
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...computer keys and a disk stand in relief, as if actually slipped into the mold. Going to a decorative extreme, Sava Cvek Associates has designed a lamp that seems more like a sculpture than a functional object. Dauntingly tall (6 ft. 4 in.), their light is a lush, glowing monolith -- no shade, no visible bulb -- that convincingly recalls both early 20th century Vienna and late 20th century Tokyo...
East German officials claim that the Wall is intended to keep the West out. In reality, however, it was designed to keep East Germans in. To that end, the monolith has proved extremely effective. One week before the Wall went up, 2,000 people fled to the West in a single day. But over the next 25 years, only about 5,000 East Germans successfully made the journey, some scaling the Wall, others tunneling beneath it. Countless others failed, and often died, in their escape attempts...
...come in out of. He knows that he works for the good guys. In his latest adventure, Blacky confronts the Evil Empire, circa 1954. Stalin is dead, Georgi Malenkov sits unsurely as party chief, and the ruthless Lavrenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots his own ascension. The monolith is in transition, and the U.S. and Britain launch a secret commando raid to overthrow the Soviet- dominated government of Albania. The assault fails because of traitors in high places...
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...national media makes the same sort of fuss over dissension among people of color--as if we're supposed to be a monolith, think alike, see the world in the same way simply because we are a shade darker than others--or for some other reason we can't, or don't want to, explain...