Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This August, following U.S. missile strikes in retaliation for the bombings of our embassies in Africa, cement barriers were placed around the Washington Monument to thwart potential carbombers. The gesture was lamented by many as the first step towards a much more guarded society. In such a society, whose rights would suffer most...
...will merge and surface near the Fleet Center, crossing the Charles River in an elegant 14-lane, cable-stayed bridge. The bridge will be the widest in the world and, in addition, the first asymmetrical bridge ever built. In its design, Swiss architects tried to evoke the Bunker Hill Monument (though some might question choosing the ugliest monument in Boston to welcome people to the city...
...like the house, he is a little scary too, a monument to danger. Houses tend to catch fire when people set them on fire, usually out of desperation or carelessness. The same people who build houses destroy them, and then they go on to build another, often a replica of the first. Like many people, I have always looked upon Clinton as a man capable of creating the grandest house on the block, and equally capable of setting it ablaze. He has arson in his blood. After the Gennifer Flowers story broke six years ago, a friend of mine offered...
...swept into office as a breath of fresh air. Both are charismatic leaders who followed older, weaker predecessors. David preceded Clinton's concern about his legacy. He wanted to build the great Temple in Jerusalem to honor God (and his reign), just as Clinton has hoped for a great monument for his presidency. Ah, and both men love women...
...Deepness, I traipse along the western edge of central California, in the region called Big Sur, which begins in the south with William Randolph Hearst's monument to the search for happiness, at San Simeon, and extends 90 miles north to Carmel. Earle has enlarged our purview to include the Monterey Bay area 12 miles farther northwest, so that we are able to look at Elkhorn Slough off Moss Landing and Monterey Canyon. This underwater chasm, as huge as the Grand Canyon, reaches out 45 nautical miles to the foot of the continental slope, and down...