Word: monumental
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...winners, U.S. Presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. Lincoln portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; Empire makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
...Although the guitar has long been the emblem of folk music, few of its early practitioners actually exploited the instrument beyond strumming chords in accompaniment. But among the few who did, Doc Watson stands as a monument of inventiveness and virtuosity. Now 77, Watson was the first to adapt the fiddle tunes at the core of the bluegrass idiom to the guitar, taking the instrument out of the background and putting it front and center, often solo, with a sparkling, rigorously precise flatpicking technique that is as fiendishly difficult as it is exciting - all the more remarkable for the fact...
...winners, U.S. presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. "Lincoln" portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; "Empire" makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
...looking like an exhausted volcano, voice hoarse and cracking, and now and then veering into the unintelligible. Jackson heated up as he went on, though, and got off a few lines that roused the house. But Teddy Kennedy, who has become a solid gray block of a man, a monument to the unbearable heaviness of being and to the sheer coagulation of the past, gave a dutiful fulmination that seemed to have been phoned in from far away...
JAMES V. KIMSEY, 61 It may be the best office in Washington: a corner suite one block from the White House, with a sweeping view of the Washington Monument. It's only fitting that the office of Oliver Carr, the city's premier bricks-and-mortar developer for the past 40 years, now belongs to James V. Kimsey, co-founder of America Online and the guy who brought the new economy to Washington's doorstep by keeping AOL in his hometown. He entered the high-tech world in the early '80s when he became chief executive of Control Video Corp...