Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood's attributes were so amply like West Egg's, Hollywood was bound to lure Fitzgerald into a mad hate-love affair. Its attraction could magnetize the man as certainly as it could rot his art. As the peeling Dr. Eckleberg--monument to America's first age of advertising and god of the ash heaps--mocked the death of Gatsby's dreams, so Hollywood--monster bulwark of materialism and smug summit of the equation--tortured Fitzgerald. Yes, the place could be as hostile to Fitzgerald as West Egg had been to Gatsby. Though both could dream unto death, neither could...
Like the Wagnerian theater in Bayreuth that Mad King Ludwig paid for, Mrs. Harkness's monument may prove to be a lasting and useful home for the lively arts. Some of her talented dancers will surely be exposed some day to more challenging choreography. Mean while, one can only sorrow that so much love, money and care was expended to such little result. such little result...
Eccentrics are not very plentiful these days, but the irreverance they represent is essential for survival. The Gardner Museum and all the letters, drawings, priceless paintings and china and carved doors and plaster casts and orchids and headless Greek statues in it are almost a monument to eccentricity. Mrs. Jack's place helps us step back from the world--if only for a moment--to laugh at all the absurdity...
...John Passion, Bach transforms one of the most beautiful and pervasive myths of all time into a monumental work of art. Adams, Sorensen, and the other performers revealed that monument to us in all its power and glory...
Fonda is often wonderful to watch in what amounts almost to one American monument impersonating another. He works with a master's skill at understatement. The trouble is that the audience is apt to come away more instructed than entertained. David Rintels' script smacks of American hagiology: "I speak for the poor, the weak," says Fonda, sounding perilously like the Statue of Liberty. For all Fonda's skill and Darrow's charm, the mind wanders sometimes, as during the American Legion's "I Speak for Democracy" contest...