Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balloon," says Marvin Leventhal, a physicist with AT&T's Bell Labs. Leventhal and his collaborator Crawford MacCallum, a physicist with the Sandia Corp., already have their balloon, a plastic monster so huge (600 to 700 ft. tall) that its material could be used to cover the Washington Monument...
...Turandot scenery was shipped from Italy in eleven cargo containers, each 40 ft. long. There are 300 costumes, and the headgear alone uses 44 lbs. of pearls, golf balls, chandelier crystals, Ping-Pong balls, espresso coffee filters and rosary beads. Depending on one's perspective, the production is a monument to either glorious or wretched excess...
...winter of 1986 I passed through La Guardia Airport while on a hectic recital tour of the U.S. In the waiting area was a table loaded with anti- Soviet literature, a sort of monument to the cold war. Above the table was a sign: IF YOU ARE AGAINST THE ARMS RACE, YOU HAD BETTER STUDY RUSSIAN. I decided to have a chat with the two cheerful gentlemen who sat sipping soft drinks at the table. I wanted to find out why an American should study the language of Pushkin and Pasternak only if he felt threatened by a Soviet invasion...
...China's young demonstrators have called for a quickened pace of reform. On April 5, 1976, students swelled the ranks of the 100,000 demonstrators who massed in Peking's Tiananmen Square to protest the removal by Maoist radicals of thousands of wreaths that had been placed at the Monument to the People's Heroes in memory of Premier Chou En-lai, who had died the previous January. The protesters obliquely attacked Mao and waved banners declaring support for Deng Xiaoping, then senior Deputy Premier. The demonstration quickly turned violent and was suppressed by authorities, who pronounced it "counterrevolutionary...
...Usually when you build a new museum, you go get some new land," Aulenti says. "To build, you must have land. Here, this old building was my new land. There are two ways to look at an old building: historically, as a monument or structure, and geographically. My way is geographic." No internal structure could abolish or convincingly mask the "geographic" form of the Gare d'Orsay. Instead, Aulenti set out to work with it as a given fact, making a new building that encourages constant reference to the old while scrupulously reflecting in its layout the narrative lines...