Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produced no flyable planes. Thereupon Hughes flew his monstrosity for a mile at 70 ft. over Los Angeles Harbor, the only time it was ever in the air. Today, at an annual rental of $46,000, the plane is hangared under guard on the Long Beach waterfront, a monument to Hughes' lifelong reluctance to admit failure-and his tendency to remember slights, real or fancied...
Dominating the northern half of the city is a 200-ft. high copy of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. It is slightly orientalized, and built out of American concrete. The original name or it was the Monument to Victory, however this title was dropped several years ago for the present one: Monument to the Dead...
Bernardine Dohrn would later be heard to utter, "Far out...can you dig that...killing that pig with a fork...fork power!" but that of course is somewhere else, standing only as a peculiar monument to the way in 'which any action in America becomes relevant to whomever thinks fastest and yells, "First dibsies." That was the strange thing about Manson, he seemed to fit just about everybody's purpose, to satisfy just about everybody's fantasies, and that is probably why he now has the best possible facilities in his prison cell, and why he'll probably...
...Legend. Such bombast is familiar because Picasso has not been a subject of serious controversy for at least 35 years. The man has become a monument, rising from a reflecting pool of undiluted praise. For Picasso is not merely the most famous artist alive. He is the most famous artist that ever lived; more people have heard of him than ever heard the names, let alone saw the work, of Michelangelo, Rembrandt or Cezanne while they were alive. His audience is incalculable. By now, it must run into hundreds of millions-including, admittedly, the many people who have heard...
...named Olga Koklova. Picasso, as several of "his" women have made clear, was never an easy man to live with. As he put it bluntly to his later mistress Françoise Gilot, women are for him "either goddesses or doormats." (Picasso, not Mailer, is the century's monument of narcissism and male chauvinism...