Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The show had not fared well on Broadway, and the music culled from it might have passed unremarked?except that the enraptured man on the podium was the renowned cellist and magnificent maestro Mstislav Rostropovich, the N.S.O.'s new permanent conductor, Washington's grandest new monument...
...dynamics of manufacture supplied, for Russian constructivism, the prototype of revolution This permitted Tallin, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and others to create, during the first years after the Soviet Revolution, the only radical art of the 20th century that meshed with radical politics. Tallin's unbuilt tower, the monument to the Third International, was greeted as transcending more bourgeois spectacles like the Eiffel Tower. It was the incarnation of struggle: "For the first time," a critic exclaimed, "iron rebels and wants to acquire its own artistic form!" El Lissitzky's marvelous series of Proun paintings, with their intersecting planes...
...military strongmen, thousands of security agents and local police were mobilized. Helicopters and sharpshooters positioned on rooftops kept constant watch. There were raucous right-wing demonstrations against the treaty and left-wing protests against the Latin American leaders, but they were kept under control. Bomb threats emptied the Washington Monument and several downtown buildings, however, and two bombs went off, one at the Soviet Aeroflot offices and another 100 yds from the White House. Anti-Castro Cubans claimed responsibility, though Fidel was not in town (Cuba was excluded from the Organization of American States...
...true vanner has not merely romanced the motor vehicle in the traditional American way. Actually, the vanners have embraced and subjugated the homely panel truck and, with Pygmalion's zest if not his graces, have transmogrified it into something utterly new and distinct: a mobile monument to self. It is self-contained and self-containing, and its womby little room is packed with the motherly comforts of home, while its skin screams advertisements of the inhabitant's wistful dreams...
...artist over his creation"-and lost. Undaunted, he has appealed the case, supported by a group of painters, musicians and writers, including Joan Miró, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen and Eugène Ionesco. Meanwhile, Renault has started to bury the concrete base and central basin of the monument. They plan to turn the 2,150-sq.-yd. area into a lawn...