Word: monumentalize
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...began as a simple remembrance of those who have succumbed to the deadly disease. But the AIDS Memorial Quilt, unfolded in its entirety near the Washington Monument over Columbus Day, has become a vast and stirring memorial to HIV victims. Started in 1987 by the San Francisco-based Names Project, the quilt stretches over 15 acres. It contains 21,000 decorated panels from 29 countries, each bearing the name of an individual who died of AIDS. Altogether it represents 2% of all AIDS victims. Total worldwide deaths from the disease: 501,272, more than a third of them...
...posh eighth-floor apartment in Arlington, Virginia. He waves an arm through the air. "Some view, huh?" he says in his famed Brooklyn baritone. Some view: first the Potomac River, then a panorama of marble. Directly ahead, in a precise line, are the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Capitol. To the left is the Kennedy Center; to the right, the Jefferson Memorial. From his balcony King can also see the Watergate apartments, the home of his childhood friend Herbie Cohen, a successful lawyer and consultant. King used to tell a story about how he, Herbie and another Brooklyn...
WITH SWEAT SLIDING DOWN HIS BROW, scientific sleuth James Starrs shoves a long steel probe down through the dirt around the grave of American explorer Meriwether Lewis. A few moments later, his team drags a radar sled across the same neatly clipped grass and around the weathered limestone monument. Their mission: to learn the truth of Lewis' mysterious death by gunshot here on a Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace, the old road between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, nearly 183 years ago. Did this pioneer, whose trek to the Pacific Northwest with William Clark has been a staple...
...fateful chain reaction, seismologists believe, started in April, when an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude rattled the vicinity of Palm Springs and Joshua Tree National Monument. On a map, the fault that was then broken looks like a shotgun taking dead aim at Landers, and in fact it was. Two months later, a minor earthquake started on a fault with no name. For a few seconds, this temblor rattled at a magnitude of 3. Suddenly, seismometer readings soared as the fracture unzipped a sequence of larger faults nearby. Then three hours after the Landers earthquake shivered to a stop...
This old man's misanthropy -- the raging of this King Lear of cowboys -- is played out against a backdrop of handsome autumn sunsets. But Eastwood knows that his face, profiled against the gray plains sky, is one of the movies' great monuments. He also knows how to dynamite that monument. The movie takes its time letting you watch Clint turn into Clint. And when he does, it's not thrilling but scary. At the end he threatens to "come back and kill everyone." Behind him, lightning illuminates an American flag and underlines the film's dour message: the world...