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...harvest painting that declared the Stalinist slogan, “Life has become better. Life has become merrier.” The actual subject of the painting, a communal dinner in rural Russia, would itself have been unremarkable. But when metamorphosed into a massive genre painting as a monument to Stalinist benevolence, such a banal, benign subject can take on a sinister power...
...bunker itself was discovered only in 1990 during, of all things, preparations for “The Wall,” the mammoth concert Roger Waters organized in celebration of German reunification. In May 1995, the regional parliament of Berlin, rejecting a proposal to retain the site as a monument, locked it and built houses for the representatives from the Bundesländer over it. A present-day visitor can walk by without having any idea of its significance...
...Tigers (13-12, 4-7) enter their game against Harvard teetering precariously on the brink of the school’s worst Ivy League season. Since the team joined the Ancient Eight in 1956-57, Princeton has never had a losing record in league play—a monument to excellence that Harvard can smash by giving the Tigers their eighth defeat of the year...
...site is an astounding monument to human knowledge. To spend a few moments browsing its enormous tangle of links is to feel an awesome sense of the breadth and depth of what mankind has accomplished, and is also an opportunity to marvel at incredible human altruism: Apparently, millions of knowledgeable internet-goers have spent hours of their time painstakingly updating articles about poisonous toads and obscure biochemical reactions...
...only be 200 sq m, but you can't beat the view. Overlooking the Champs de Mars gardens on the southeast side and the Seine on the northwest, skaters can glide over colored lights embedded in the ice from one panorama to the next. All visitors to the monument have free rink access, and skates can be rented in exchange for a piece of identification. Open until Jan. 23. First-floor admission, adults $5, children $3. tel: (33-1) 44 11 23 23; www.tour-eiffel.fr...