Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nuremberg, the USSR added the massacre to the list of charges against Hermann Goering, but quietly dropped the accusations for lack of evidence. And during the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, Soviet forces leveled a monument to the slain officers...
Indeed, the likely conclusion to the Gulf station saga will be an unsightly edifice on Mass. Ave., a monument to Harvard's fixation on profitable niceties at the expense of academics...
...turning Atlantic City into an American monument to self-delusion, the casinos blame the town, the town blames the casinos, and everyone blames the state. All of them are right...
...movies, the Keystone Kops, Chaplin. You think of these guys sitting in poky little movie houses in Central Europe in the 1920s watching these flickering images. As far as they were concerned, everything in America was all in the same place. You rode down Fifth Avenue straight into Monument Valley...
Next day, standing below the soaring Workers Monument in Gdansk, the President wrapped his arm around Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and held the portly electrician next to him. At the Westerplatte Memorial, which marks the site of the first gunfire of World War II, Bush, draped in a large American flag by an exuberant Pole, reached into the crowd, picked up a small boy and hugged him as if he were one of his own eleven grandchildren...