Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table and Rodchenko's functional chairs came Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and Breuer's armchairs. Of course many of these developments ran parallel, and which derived from which is more a question of interaction than origination, such as Mies van der Rohe's model for a Monument to the Third International...
...perfect choice! When a Protestant German Chancellor falls to his knees in Catholic Poland before a monument to slain Jews, there is hope for all of us in this young world...
Another Christmas tree was kidnapped by a player from its home outside a Fifth Avenue store. The new owner proceeded to haul it back to the Penn Garden and transplant it between the springs of his bed. This monument was reportedly a rallying spot for celebrants throughout the night...
Jail conditions frequently breed hardened criminals who then go on to the prisons themselves, the second anomaly in a pattern that stands as a monument to irrationality. The typical U.S. felon is sentenced by a judge who may have never seen a prison and has no idea whether x years will suffice. Leaving the courtroom, where his rights were scrupulously respected, the felon has a good chance of being banished to one of 187 escape-proof fortresses, 61 of them built before 1900. Now stripped of most rights, he often arrives in chains and becomes a number. His head sheared...
...views of Retired Chairman Frederic Donner, 68, veteran of a time when the auto was king and major corporations were only timidly criticized. Sullivan says, "I perfectly well realize that I was chosen because I am a black man," but he does not intend to become a monument to corporate tokenism. Blacks account for 14% of G.M.'s employment in the U.S., but own only twelve of the company's 13,600 dealerships. "If I am going to stay on the board," says Sullivan, "they are going to have to have many more black dealers-and black salesmen...