Word: monumentalized
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...Scarborough believes that "activist" judges have imposed their personal beliefs by creating new rights on abortion, gay marriage and pornography that aren't expressly stated in the Constitution. They say those same judges have also restricted freedom of religion by, for example, ordering the removal of a Ten Commandments monument from the grounds of the Alabama state supreme court. Last week's federal-court decision overturning Nebraska's gay-marriage ban has only added fuel to the right's fire. Thus, Scarborough is spending most of his time these days working to beat back Democrats' attempts to block several...
...designed by American architect Peter Eisenman and cost $35 million to build. Although the idea for a memorial was first mooted by German journalist Lea Rosh in 1988, it took 15 years of debate over the design before construction began in 2003. Parliamentary President Wolfgang Thierse said the monument, which is dedicated to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims, is a sign that Germany "faces up to its history...
Loker Commons, that sulking sewer of broken dreams deep beneath Memorial Hall, is a living monument to Harvard’s inability to effectively accommodate the social lives of its students. It is a failed project in almost every respect, its original purpose obliterated by poor design and subsequent misuse. But while reviving Loker Commons as a student center is a noble aim, indeed, the transformation of the space into a pub environment would be counter-productive and, more than likely, ultimately unsuccessful...
...Shinto worship, Yasukuni is where the souls of 2.5 million Japanese war dead are enshrined. Since 1978, when 14 of Japan's most notorious World War II war criminals were added to the books of veneration there, Japan's neighbors have considered the shrine not a national and religious monument, but a hateful celebration of Japan's warmongering past. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual trips to the shrine unfailingly provoke formal protests from China. Two weeks ago, Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan told Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura that one of the major stumbling blocks to improving relations...
...shapes. While one poet delivers a spoken word performance piece about liberty and equality in the United States, another performer slowly paints the Statue of Liberty with a green spray can. It is fascinating to watch her drawing develop from an oblong triangle to a realistic version of the monument, mixing visual art with performing in an offbeat way. Yet the show’s graffiti element was not exploited to its fullest possibility. It would only have added to the excitement to see more layers of color and shapes blending together...