Word: monumental
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...chairman of the veterans' group that raised the money and built it. "I had a picture of seven-year-olds throwing a Frisbee around on the grass in front. But it's treated as a spiritual place." When Wheeler's colleague Jan Scruggs decided there ought to be a monument, he had only vague notions of what it might be like. "You don't set out and build a national shrine," Scruggs says. "It becomes...
Washington is thick with monuments, several of them quite affecting. But as + the Viet Nam War was singular and strange, the dark, dreamy, redemptive memorial to its American veterans is like no other. "It's more solemn," says National Park Service Ranger Sarah Page, who has also worked at the memorials honoring Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson. "People give it more respect." Lately it has been the most visited monument in the capital: 2.3 million saw it in 1984, about 45,000 a week, but it is currently drawing 100,000 a week. Where does it get its power--to console...
...wear fatigues, but the pose is not John Wayne-heroic: these American boys are spectral and wary, even slightly bewildered as they gaze southeast toward the wall. While he was planning the figures, Sculptor Frederick Hart spent time watching vets at the memorial. Hart now grants that "no modernist monument of its kind has been as succcessful as that wall. The sculpture and the wall interact beautifully. Everybody won." Nor does Lin, his erstwhile artistic antagonist, still feel that Hart's statue is so awfully trite. "It captures the mood," says Lin. "Their faces have a lost look...
...mean he is soft. Clearly, he is out to kill Star Wars. And he does have a temper. And so on. Only after long bouts of fruitless peering does one realize, again, that to scrutinize a Soviet leader is to scrutinize the Soviet state, and the state is a monument to impermeability...
Quite appropriately, much of the commentary last week dwelled on Gorbachev's relative youth. After all, his age was one of the few things that outsiders knew for sure about him. Even the CIA's biographical file was, according to one agency official, "pathetically thin and unhelpful--a monument to how little we still know about that damn place and the people...