Word: monumentalizing
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...high school, we were cultured enough for the Met; and senior year, mature enough for the Holocaust Museum in New York. For a long time, New York City was just the end-point of many long school bus rides. I assumed every building was a museum or a monument, forgetting that eight million New Yorkers had to live somewhere. New Haven was the center of my universe, and New York was two hours off my radar...
...political disagreements. Even icv vice president Bosch admits that the government may not be ready to move the dictator's remains to a private grave. But whatever happens, it seems likely that in the near future, visitors to the Valley of the Fallen will encounter something different - a monument that, after decades undisturbed, at last recognizes the whole country's past...
...honored them all and set herself up not only as a great jazz vocalist but as a trusted custodian of some of American pop's richest treasure. This elegantly turned-out set collects all eight Fitzgerald songbooks for the first time. Singly they were remarkable. Together they're a monument...
...Mahal Saved When Shah Jahan finished the gleaming white Taj Mahal in 1648, he never dreamed that iron foundries and other factories would someday cause the monument to become yellowed and pitted. In 1993 the Indian Supreme Court ordered 230 of the facilities shut down until they install pollution controls...
...Spencer Associates: Coldwater Ridge Visitor Services Center Leave it to Americans to take a disaster that killed 57 people just 13 years ago and turn it into an official federal tourist trap. Fortunately, this center in the blast-zone heart of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument nicely avoids both government-issue banality and hokey log-cabin regionalism. Spencer Associates, based in Palo Alto, California, has created a spectacular glass-covered grand hall, from which one can gawk at acres of ash, lava beds, charred cedar stumps and, eight miles away, the still active volcano...