Word: monumental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Memorial Commission reduced the site for the F.D.R. monument from 27 acres to twelve...
...commission decided to honor F.D.R. with a rose garden, but monument lovers objected that this would not be monumental enough...
Reagan's most enjoyable moment last year may have been on the Fourth of July. Standing with friends on the Truman Balcony, he watched fireworks burst over the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. "He was ecstatic," claims one pal. Says another: "He is a ceremony freak...
...legislative intern: "I drafted legislation in the morning, lunched with the Senator at noon, and spent the afternoon in the Senate cloakroom counting votes with the lobbyists." The second day she probably argued a case before the Supreme Court, lectured the President on foreign policy, and climbed the Washington Monument...
...rent a hall to preview his movie. But the guy was Francis Coppola, 42, director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now; and the hall was the 6,000-seat art deco monument in Rockefeller Center; and the movie was a $26 million love story whose ballooning budget carried Coppola's Zoetrope Studios further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart...