Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ominous Omissions. Drawn up under the personal supervision of Ulbricht, the new document is a monument to his tough brand of Communism. It empowers the Council of State, of which Ulbricht is the chief, to veto any decisions by other government branches, including those of the courts. Slavishly socialist, it pledges eternal devotion to the Soviet Union and declares that East Germany has the responsibility to lead the rest of Germany "into a future of peace and Socialism." Formally establishing the old Marxist goal of the dictatorship of the proletariat, it states that "all political power is exercised...
There are drive-in movies, restaurants, laundries, banks and even churches-so why not a drive-in funeral home? Atlanta Mortician Hirschel Thornton, 49, will open one this week. The world's first monument to automotive mourning consists of five picture-windowed viewing rooms frontin on a curved, gravel driveway. So that drive-in mourners will not have to peer through rain-streaked windows, Thornton has covered the driveway with a roof. Another thoughtful touch: the windows reach almost to the ground, enabling passengers in even the lowest-slung foreign sports cars to get a good look without having...
...hospital is a monument to what man can do, but it stands alone, dwarfed by the stunning poverty of the land, the fascism of Papa Doc, and the terrorism of the Tonton Macoute--more sobering monuments to what man actually does.Stories of executions by the TONTON MACOUTE are common. Recently, after a Haitian citizen had been murdered on broad daylight, a judge ruled that he had died a natural death...
Unfortunately, Kerouac lacks the verbal talent to match his passionate commitment to the truth in himself. He suffers from a breathless style and the frequent burble of "fine writing." His book must be reluctantly put down with the thought that here is another monument brave in conception but botched by clumsy chisels...
...circulation going!" cries Jack LaLanne, a 53-year-old, V-shaped (47-27-34) monument to muscularity. "Get those sweat glands working! Kick! Back! One-and-kick-and-two-and-kick-and-smile-and-kick! Don't stop! Smile and kick!" He wears ballet slippers and a body-hugging, low-cut jump suit, and bounds around like the original jumping Jack. Backed by bubbly organ music, he gives lectures on the beauties of sweating ("It's Mother Nature's air conditioner"), sings, tells jokes, blows kisses and delivers sermonettes. No one, he says, can hope...