Word: monumentalized
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...commemorate the July 7 terrorist bombings. Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery and chairman of the committee that chose the statue, says the judges wanted to honor the "demotic spirit" of the square as much as its history. Alison Lapper Pregnant fits right in: it's a monument to the strength of a human spirit, and it's impossible to ignore...
...Akram and Abdel Karim Atrash, 16, both shot in the leg by Friedman, had but one thing to say from her sons' hospital room: "Those settlers should be butchered." For their part, the Jews of Hebron this time were careful not to give public praise. But they have a monument that to the Arabs speaks louder than words: a shrine outside Hebron erected by the Jews to honor Baruch Goldstein, perpetrator of the 1994 mosque massacre...
These anachronisms do more than just entertain. Rather than portraying David as a monument to Jewish leadership—as Pinsky says Talmudic scholars who “need their king” do—the book shows him for what he was: a real person, with as many sides to his character as anyone living today...
...Louisville in Kentucky, says that he thinks that the events were not genocide because some Armenians survived. Can you imagine the same words being said about the Jewish Holocaust? Would such a statement be acceptable to Time magazine? The narrator of the dvd says (over images of the genocide monument in Yerevan ) that historical facts were falsified when they were transmitted to the young generation. Can you imagine a dvd presenting images from the Yad Vashem monument, together with an explanation that young Jews don't have to honor the memory of their people? Would such a statement be acceptable...
...Orchestra di Santa Cecilia as well as the city's most important musical events in three separate halls. In December the Rome Opera House will have Lo Schiaccianoci, otherwise known as The Nutcracker. After years of being closed for a contentious restoration, the Ara Pacis, the Emperor Augustus' monument to peace, dedicated in 9 B.C., is finally open (Piazza Augusto Imperatore). It is to be the centerpiece of a new museum that is being designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier. You'll have to come back in April for that...