Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embarrassing incidents became less frequent but did not end. In February 1990, Lujan visited New Mexico's Petroglyph National Monument. There he stunned local officials gathered around the centuries-old "Dancing Kachina Petroglyph" when he bent down beside an adjacent rock and scratched it with a knife. The Secretary was asked to refrain. Lujan explains the incident without a trace of embarrassment: "There was this whole discussion going on, which I knew was not correct, about how hard the rock was, that there must have been enormously sharp instruments to make these petroglyphs. I just took out my knife...
...seat-of-the-pants introduction to America's highway misery, try rattling down the joint-jangling Southwest Freeway in the shadow of the Washington Monument. On this long-neglected strip of pavement, a washboard ripple effect experts call rutting jiggles the front wheels into a dervish dance. Farther along in a newly rebuilt section, potholes already lurk, like so many blacktop booby traps...
...fire. But when Camille Paglia comes to town, they fall silent in hurt shock, too noble or too scared to reply. Or else they go whimpering to whimpering to Daddy for protection, "Daddy" is Harvard University, formerly a bastion of male arrogance and exclusiveness, now suddenly transformed into a monument of civility and scholarly courtesy...
Constancy has not been a hallmark of Bush's political style. His position on taxes, for example, is a monument to political expediency. In 1980 he opposed Ronald Reagan's supply-side theories as "voodoo economics," then promptly jettisoned that belief in exchange for a place on the G.O.P. ticket. In 1988 he vowed to lower the deficit without raising taxes, only to reverse himself two years later when he signed the 1990 budget deal. That agreement raised all kinds of taxes -- and still failed to lower the deficit...
...vocal beauty, but no singer today is as versatile. So when Deutsche Grammophon set out to recap his two decades with the label, there was plenty to choose from. The first of 10 CDs of highlights to be released this year is Arias, Songs & Tangos. It is a monument to his vigorous musicianship. Over time Domingo's voice has become darker and richer, his style more fluent and less mannered. The only regret: his masterly Otello, recorded for RCA and EMI, cannot be included...