Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robin Wagner has well captured the contrast between stern Rome and luxuriant Egypt in his sets; especially striking are the warm golds that adorn Alexandria, and the 15-foot-high double columns that support Cleopatra's monument--all skillfully lit by Marc Weiss. John Morris's music is markedly better than what he provided for Caesar, though it is still a bit obvious in its quasi-exotic effects...
...Pennsylvania Turnpike to traffic. Roadbed washouts crippled rail traffic around Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City. The Potomac crested in Washington at 6 ft. above flood level, the highest in 36 years; the Kennedy Center approaches were inundated, and Army engineers packed protective sandbags near the Washington Monument. At Corning, N.Y., all of the Corning Glass Works facilities were under water; nearby in Elmira, 20 ft. of water lapped at buildings in the downtown business district...
...monument to Camelot--the impending John F. Kennedy Library Center--is transforming the area. Already, a shopping mall is rising next to Holyoke Center, acrylics are replacing brick storefronts, rents are rising out of sight, and soil experts are boring into the Common and MBTA yard. And much more is coming...
Heroic Misinformation. Piranesi's graphic work may well be the most extraordinary monument to nostalgia in Western art. The ruins of Rome fascinated him when he arrived there from Venice at age 20; they were, he wrote, "the most perfect that architecture ever achieved." Their very size stunned him. It had to be met by what seemed to Piranesi a wholly truthful, if not perfectly realistic inflation of scale. "These speaking ruins have filled my spirit with images that accurate drawings, even such as those of the immortal Palladio, could never have succeeded in conveying . . ." So in his renderings...
...these things are actually happening at Futan, Shanghai's biggest and most prestigious center of higher education, and now a monument to Maoism. Formerly the French missionary Aurora College, Futan, with its student body reduced from 6,500 to 1,135, is still in the throes of change...