Word: monumentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear Los Angeles day-the kind that usually happens only in winter-it presents a picture of undeniable elegance. A half-block west of the old Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, the ornate façde of the Garden Court Apartments stands as a monument to another era when the building's tenants included the likes of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Mack Sennett, John Barrymore and Louis B. Mayer. Sculpted angels still hang from its flanks; a trio of cherubs intertwine arms on the fountain out front; inside, despite a rich cache of old whisky...
...Police have been called in to guard the structure from demolition crews; preservationists have staged all-night vigils; private security guards have barred the Gordon Group from access to the grounds. City Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson, who led last year's fight to declare the Garden Court Historic-Cultural Monument 243, decided later that the building should go-a flip-flop that, she insists, has nothing to do with CD's $2,500 contribution to her campaign...
There are certain ironies in holding the economics summit at Versailles. The most sumptuous château in France is a monument to royal extravagance. Twice in this century, Versailles has been rescued from near ruin only by generous infusions of American cash...
...Thursday, on his 70th birthday, he teed it up in the first round of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village near Columbus, on an exquisite golf course built by Jack Nicklaus that will one day be for Nicklaus what Augusta National is for Bobby Jones: something close to a monument...
...shame that Emerson had to harden into a monument, into mere required reading, or worse, the man superseded by Kurt Vonnegut on the course lists. Too many generations came to regard him as a chill, gnomic bore, the best of American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should...