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Falwell then headed outside for the brown-and-white van that he likes to drive. He wanted to show off Liberty University. He considers the school his most enduring monument, and last year put $30 million into its administration and $10 million into new construction. "There it is," he said delightedly as the college came into view. He drove along the winding mountain roads, proudly pointing out the low, tan brick school buildings. He stopped by the auditorium. "Almost every Cabinet officer has spoken here," he said. "And Reagan, Bush, Ted Kennedy, Jack Kemp." His great pride was obvious...
Long-time Supporters are also taking about naming a baseball diamond on the Cambridge Common, apartments for the elderly at 2050 Mass. Ave., and a special Japanese peace monument after Russell, according to Gerald A. Boyle, the former mayor's aide...
...familiar images in recent American sculpture -- blue-collar minimalism, a pugnacious combination of muteness with extreme manipulations of space. Nobody could call his work accessible, but there is no denying his influence on other artists. To take only one example, the black granite notch of Maya Ying Lin's monument to the Viet Nam dead in Washington, D.C., the most intensely moving war memorial in America, is basically a spin-off from Serra's land sculptures...
...should try / slipping a public-acceptability clause into its future commissions, if it can draft one that holds water. That way a perfect level of mediocrity can be upheld for all time. But Tilted Arc should stay, if not as a source of general pleasure, then as a didactic monument to the follies that can arise at the juncture of undemanding patronage and truculent aestheticism...
...small riverfront park, the veterans laid wreaths at a gray stone monument that recalls the 1945 encounter in Cyrillic lettering. Robertson, now 61 and a neurosurgeon in Los Angeles, and Silvashko, also 61, and a secondary school headmaster in Minsk, re-enacted their 1945 embrace. Said Silvashko: "I have a peaceful profession now, and so does...