Word: monumentalize
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...heavy thumb left the biggest print. When Wilson came to Washington the Korean war was about over, and his first big job was to convert to the long-haul New Look. He cut manpower, substituted the firepower of increasingly plentiful nuclear weapons, and it is Charlie Wilson's monument that he maintained an effective force-in-being that kept the peace for five rough years...
Mussolini, the latest example of a notably successful TV specialty, is in great part a monument to a new kind of sleuth: the film searcher. Before Twentieth Century could fit together the show's dramatic jigsaw pattern in celluloid, searchers had to hunt out the bits and pieces of aging film in 25 different hoards in four countries; to give editors a choice, they brought in ten times as much footage as editors could...
...pictures -society portraits, nightclub nudes and tourist bouquets-are likely to pass away like grass now that Rivera is gone. The Indian museum-temple that he built to house his pre-Columbian collection will doubtless remain one of architecture's more intriguing curiosities. His murals are his lasting monument. Provocative at worst, or blatantly propagandistic for Communism (as in the case of the destroyed apotheosis of Lenin painted for Manhattan's RCA Building), they are enormously revealing at best-of peasant aspirations, Mexican heroes of history, the vigorous shapes and colors of the Mexican countryside...
...shift and change of artistic fashion. Collected by princes and merchants alike, he has remained one of the most popular artists in history. With 15 of the 40 surviving paintings attributed to him collected in one room, Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (see color pages) is today his finest monument...
...brush. He painted for children chiefly-half the time for the publishing house of Scribner, which has sold some 1,700,000 of his "Illustrated Classics," from Treasure Island (1911) to The Yearling (1939). Thirteen are still in print, and the set as a whole is a living monument to a magnificent artist...