Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make cutbacks or modify the design. Still, even in the face of Hong Kong's uncertain future-China could take control when the United Kingdom's lease on much of the crown colony's land expires in 1997-the bank seems determined to build a monument that, says Munden, is more than "just a building...
...sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Bristling with statuary and turrets, the imposing edifice sits in stony silence in the gathering light of dawn. But this is not a Hollywood fantasy. It is Indonesia's Borobudur, the world's largest and probably most mysterious Buddhist monument, which will be rededicated this week as a national shrine and tourist attraction after being rescued from decades of neglect...
Recently spruced up, but, alas, so far only externally, Grand Central Terminal is a splendid specimen of Beaux-Arts architecture. It is also the statement of an era, a monument to the triumph of the railroads in forging an empire out of a wilderness and creating a wealth of museum treasures, public libraries and handsome buildings...
...stories of poor, homeless people who testified before a Congressional panel just before Christmas. The tales included people sleeping in Salvation Army clothing deposit boxes and pretending they had sick relatives in order to enjoy the warmth of hospital waiting rooms. The vignettes were introduced as "the most enduring monument to Reagan's President--the creation of a subculture of misery...
...monument in question is Thomas Ball's Emancipation. a bronze statue created in 1874. The huge artwork depicts a majestic President Abraham Lincoln, armed with his famous Proclamation, benevolent hand outstretched, in the act of liberating a barely clothed Black salve. The bondsman who humbly kneels before the Great Emancipator, his manacles finally broken, seems unable to comprehend his new found freedom and elevated social status. Local Black groups, offended by the paternalistic relationship implied by the statue, have asked that it be moved to an out-of-sight location...