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...refusing to make feel-good movies or boys'-life adventures or simple melodramas - simple anything. For more than 35 years, Robert Altman, who died Monday night in Los Angeles at 81, was the truth-telling leper outside the film-industry cathedral, and the most cunning chiseler at the staid monument Hollywood has made of movie...
Lamont Library bears a striking resemblance to a Las Vegas casino. While Harvard’s monument to round-the-clock academic endeavor may lack blackjack tables and Siegfried & Roy, it shares the Vegas ethos of detachment from ordinary reality...
Ground will be broken this week on the $100 million Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the first monument on the National Mall in Washington to honor an African American...
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...Carlyon has spent eight years erecting his own monument to those half-forgotten men. He started with Gallipoli (2001), about the doomed campaign that launched the Anzac legend. Now, in The Great War (Macmillan; 860 pages), he looks at the Australians on the western front, the 750-km line of trenches that snaked through France and Belgium. In the national memory of the war, Gallipoli is the big event. Places like Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont Saint Quentin are "hardly spoken of," Carlyon writes. Yet they should be bywords for valor?and tragedy. Most of the 324,000 volunteers who sailed...