Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide screen and brigades of extras-helped out New York City on a problem of medium-high learning. Donated by DeMille: four plaques, to be placed at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle, the 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, with a translation of the monument's hieroglyphics. For the occasion, DeMille recalled his urchin days in the wilds of the big city: "As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. I saw my first lion and tiger in the Central Park Zoo. I used to play ball...
...soon he has got into trouble with the police, changed his name to Shaw and become the most triple-dyed villain since East Lynne. And one of his schoolmates, pretty Dora Dienst. listens to the. siren song with the seemingly inevitable result: she becomes a boozy prostitute and a monument of perfidy...
...into the courtyard below, but with the proviso that the door of what was now Righetti's apartment must be sealed off. The owner of Righetti's apartment had in turn sought permission to cut another door into the courtyard, but because the palace was a national monument, the Ministry of Fine Arts in Rome had forbidden it. Now, after eight years, a Rome court had ordered the door sealed off, and Righetti would have to leave. It was the law, they said, and had nothing to do with his Protestantism...
...Lima's broad and sunny central plaza, the Vice President of the U.S. reverently laid at the base of a monument to Liberator Joseé San Martin a wreath whose entwined flowers depicted the Peruvian and U.S. flags. Outwardly Richard Nixon was at ease and confident; inwardly he had to consider warnings from Peruvian police and his own security people to skip the next stop on his program, Lima's 400-year-old University of San Marcos...
...survive disillusioning bursts of canned applause, poorly spliced film, a faulty sound-track, paper mache countryside, and a disconcerting propensity on the part of the cast to get that gleam of timeless monument as they're about to mumble a famous passage...