Word: monumentalizing
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Frank Eugene Corder seemed to know exactly how he wanted to die. Sometime before midnight on Sept. 11, he stole a single-engine plane from an airport north of Baltimore headed south to Washington, flew over the National Zoological Park and down to the Mall, probably using the Washington Monument as a beacon. As he neared the famed obelisk, he banked a tight U-turn over the Ellipse, came in low over the White House South Lawn, clipped a hedge, skidded across the green lawn that girds the South Portico and crashed into a wall two stories below the presidential...
...with Cronyn, The Gin Game in 1978 and Foxfire in 1982); for Miss Daisy she earned an Oscar as Best Actress in 1990. Two years later she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Fried Green Tomatoes. By then Tandy was more than an actress; she was a living monument to the old- fashioned belief in survival of the flintiest...
...dialogue and ambiance. But style is a Hollywood commodity even rarer these days than a pretty woman. Films don't breeze; they wheeze. Directors aren't pastry chefs anymore; they are construction foremen. Watching I Love Trouble, you can see the erection of a new Julia Roberts statue. The monument is eye-catching but bland, and Lord, it must weigh...
This time his men had to push Major John Howard, 81, over Pegasus Bridge in a wheelchair as they marched to lay a wreath on the monument marking the landing of the British glider troops l6 minutes into D-day. They were the first Allied soldiers on the ground, and they captured the bridge in a few minutes, a distinction they do not want to lose in the crowded annals of history. Every year since, they have come back to give a champagne toast on the minute for their small but stunning victory. The champagne is courtesy of the French...
...year-old stark black granite walls of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington are cracking. The monument, which lists the American war dead from that conflict, shows only hairline fractures at the moment. But the apparent flaws have prompted a study, to be announced tomorrow, to pinpoint causes of the damage. Proceeds from U.S. coins minted to commemorate the Memorial and Vietnam veterans will pay for the work...