Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Within this setting, Author Shere Hite is a slight, willowy figure, resembling nothing so much as a fey, reclusive maiden on leave from a Renaissance fair. It is an exquisitely crafted image, graceful, faintly otherworldly, eccentric. The $1.5 million, four-room duplex apartment is a monument to the success of her two earlier Hite Reports...
...biggest, most expensive Japanese building ever -- too big and too expensive, his critics say. Even more disconcerting to many of Tange's peers is the building's design: with its split tower, ersatz campaniles and creme brulee surface of glass-and-granite panels, it would be a postmodern monument -- Notre Dame redesigned by Gaudi and enlarged to monstrous proportions. "Tange's city hall is garish," says Architect Takefumi Aida, "so much so that it would end up looking like a symbol of Japan as a nouveau riche state. I can't stand...
...many in Dallas, the Texas School Book Depository has been a monument to the most shameful day in the city's history. For years tourists have trekked to the red-brick building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy. But the structure was closed to the public until 1981, when it was declared a Texas historic site, and visitors still are not allowed near Oswald's sixth-floor sniper perch...
...after Rancher Absalom Lehman discovered vast limestone caves in the neighboring foothills. Swinging a sledgehammer to cut paths through forests of stalactites and stalagmites, Lehman then led candlelight tours through the caves for a dollar a head. After President Warren G. Harding declared the caves a national monument in 1922, Manager Clarence Rhodes rented them out for weddings, dances and initiation ceremonies for the Knights of Pythias, who frolicked in clouds of sulfurous smoke wearing costumes...
...Susan meet at a hoity-toity Washington inauguration gala, but they've got better things to do and better places to do them--like the back seat of a limousine cruising around our nation's capitol. Sure enough, the sequence includes a nice, long shot of the Washington Monument...