Word: monumental
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...Kong's border. After immigration, a visitor walks across a narrow bridge spanning a stinking, black canal?the first whiff of something rotten in the air?and steps directly into a city overeager to offer its wares. The first building to confront new arrivals is a six-storied, mirrored monument to China's status as the world's counterfeit capital. Shops display perfect replicas of Armani suits, Gucci handbags, Nike trainers, Rolex watches, Cartier jewelry, as well as racks of pirated videos and discs. Outside, televisions air graphic advertisements for clinics offering breast enlargements and other cosmetic surgeries...
Alabama In Selma, a monument to a Confederate--and Klan founder...
Selma seems stuck in an old day. Last fall, not far from where blacks were beaten as they marched for the right to vote 100 years after the end of the Civil War, and not far from the "I Had a Dream" monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a statue of Forrest was raised on city property. The slate-gray memorial and its bright rebel symbol were approved during the 36th and final year of onetime segregationist Mayor Joe Smitherman's time in office. It was unveiled five days after the first black mayor in city history, James Perkins...
...STATES? The magazine fell open to a two-page ad for a book called The God of War. The book is about the same Civil War hero and Klan co-founder celebrated on the wall of the Confederate Presbyterian Church in Wiggins, Miss., the same man memorialized by that monument in Selma. The clip-out order form for the book said, "Yes, I want to ride with General Nathan Bedford Forrest!" It has been too long a ride, and the travelers seem pretty well exhausted...
...Hamlet it is no surprise that his stamina may flag ever so slightly. The emphasis here must be on the slightly, though. Beale remains a marvel. To watch him in action is to witness something incredible: the steady and graceful transformation of a myth into a man and a monument into a story. We all know the tale of Hamlet, even if we think we don’t. But none of us has ever known it like this before...