Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of car that might inspire another Cheech and Chong road trip. From its groovy arched roof and fenders to a funky blue speedometer, the new Beetle--introduced last week at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit--is a motorized monument to Flower Power nostalgia. All that's missing is a Day-Glo paint job and a roach clip in the ashtray. But the Beetle will be a much trickier resurrection than bell-bottoms now that boomers seem partial to cars and trucks big enough to fit a Bug in the back...
...slave memorial to be built on the National Mall remains strong. This seems a fairly harmless gesture that might be valuable if it actually served as a balm for the historical wound. Critics point out that space on the Mall will rapidly run out if we construct a monument for every crime that western society has committed on its rise to hegemony...
...Titanic is an easy target, by the nature of the subject itself, that great monument to the folly of arrogant confidence. But believe me, I have never felt arrogance or certainty on this project. Quite the opposite. It has been a nerve-racking, terrifying ride. The budget overages threatened to consume our very sanity; the scope of the thing was overwhelming. But something kept us going--the studio heads, myself, the crew. We knew we had a chance to do something special, and those chances don't come along often...
...border a few years ago and colonized one of the western states. But Bass's fiction (The Book of Yaak, In the Loyal Mountains) seems to get categorized as good-with-an-asterisk. He's regional. (So was Wallace Stegner, of course, until he became a national monument.) Bass may reach monument or even wilderness-area status in time, but for the moment he gathers honorable obscurity, and blackflies, on the shelf reserved for nature writers...
...task of identifying the bodies was both excruciating and excruciatingly slow. A wake was held in Lyndhurst, N.J., for Teddy Shoebridge even before his body was positively identified. Six victims were never identified; today, those six bodies are buried in adjacent graves next to a monument in Spring Hill Cemetery, which overlooks the Marshall campus...