Word: monolithism
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...heavily shadowed facade that sucks the tourists through its deep slot of an entrance. It looks both secretive and ostentatious. The absurdities start within, on the thick travertine stairs that rise to the main hall (officially called the Hall of Achievements). At their top is a high black marble monolith, inscribed with four of L.B.J.'s axioms. (Sample: "A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.") Behind this stretches a five-part mural in etched magnesium. In reality, each panel is a blown-up photoengraver's plate...
FLANIGAN: I think this view of Japan as an invincible monolith probably is not right. The thrust of the argument has been that because they can have a monopoly in Japan, then obviously they are going to be able to beat us. It is my understanding that American business in general feels that monopoly is bad, that it makes people less efficient...
...history of advanced sculpture, from Cubism to the welded-steel structures of David Smith and Anthony Caro, became, in effect, the history of construction. Of late, this has stiffened into dogma; almost any work can be made to seem regressive simply because it is a monolith (hence the decline of interest in Henry Moore). Still, the greatest single piece of recent American sculpture, Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, is as monolithic as sculpture can get; and there are other signs of the rehabilitation of solid form. Among the most promising is the work of Clement Meadmore, most recently...
...appropriate juxtaposition. In The Games, Ryan O'Neal-Oliver in Love Story -plays a Yale distance runner who ends up collapsing into a concrete monolith during the Olympic marathon...
...each character: Andreas Winkleman has retreated into an emotional state of non-expression after being abandoned by his wife and lives alone in a small cottage, "a prison as much as a refuge." He soon meets Anna Fromm, a widow who has fantasized her late marriage into a monolith of Truth and Happiness, despite strong indications that she actually murdered her husband and child in a car crash. She has recovered and lives near Andreas with Eva and Elis Vergerus (Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephson). Eva has always felt rootless, meaningless, and useless, has remained childless. Her husband...