Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Right or wrong, Fijians are positively infected with me-first fever. The centerpiece of their New Year's Eve preparations is the installation of a Meridian Wall and monument along the 180th longitude, where it crosses Udu Point on the island of Vanua Levu. Sealed within the estimated 100,000 bricks of the wall will be vials containing messages from around the world. The wall will be one of the starting points of a Unity Torch Relay, beginning Dec. 25 and finishing at the capital, Suva, on New Year...
...Boston end of the Weeks Footbridge, a red-brick monument to the future of graduate education at Harvard sits swathed in scaffolding...
...ambitious, walk-on parts abound around Boston, where several independent films are currently in the production stage. These include Monument Ave., a picture about Boston's Southies starring Dennis Leary, and The Love Letter, a DreamWorks production featuring Tom Selleck and Ellen DeGeneres...
Love calls Skin "a monument" and says it will "alter the skyline." She hopes it will show younger female musicians that they can aspire to more than coffeehouse acoustic strumming and that they too can be rock stars. "What we're really interested in is who we restart, who comes up," says Love. "Because the female musician, the girl that is, like, playing rock in the garage, she's not around anymore, she's been taken out, she's been killed, she's not encouraged...
...live with this constant threat? After the U.S. bombed Afghanistan and the Sudan, the precautions taken in America filled highlight reels here for days: cranes moving gigantic barriers around the Washington Monument, increased airport security and decreased access to certain offices and revered sites. Surely this barricading offers some protection, But something will be lost when third-graders go home and describe a Washington Monument not as a serene pinnacle to American glory but as a virtual maze of uniforms and restrictions, recalling that it was surrounded not by flags but by concrete...