Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long after a lesser director would have cut his losses-but his movie remains a collection of footage. While much of the footage is breathtaking, Apocalypse Now is emotionally obtuse and intellectually empty. It is not so much an epic account of a grueling war as an incongruous, extravagant monument to artistic self-defeat...
Soon after the plane arrived, the group was taken to the site of the Warsaw ghetto. Every building, every person, had literally gone up in smoke when German troops annihilated the last holdout of Warsaw Jewry in 1943. At the steps of the monument, New York Businessman Benjamin Meed, who had been smuggled out of the ghetto just before its destruction, read his simple statement: "I hear once again their very last command to us all: 'Pamietaj! Remember! Never forget and never forgive!' " Later, racked with sobs, he recalled the years of hiding and flight. "On the last...
...those children, Elie Wiesel, led the commission on to Birkenau, the neighboring camp, where crematories once burned night and day. Linking arms with four other survivors, Wiesel marched over the tracks that had brought him here a world ago and laid a wreath on a monument to the fallen. "Do not let your eyes deceive you," he said quietly...
...Moscow, the only monument was a single synagogue. About 100 old men, their Rembrandt faces limned by faith, prayed as their ancestors have done for thousands of years. Here Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, 34, deputy director of the commission, read from Lamentations...
...Most of the guests gathered at the White House, from which vans whisked them to a makeshift helipad hard by the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument for the flight to Camp David. Arriving there, they were met by Secret Service men and ushered to the Laurel Lodge, where Carter joined them for breakfast, lunch or dinner and long postmeal talks; one lasted five hours, until from routine (steak and fresh vegetables) to exotic ("ten-boy curry," an Indian dish so named because ten mess boys supposedly are required to serve it and its condiments...