Word: monumentalizing
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Both Kohl and his host, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, behaved with great delicacy. Like an earlier West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, who visited Israel in 1973, Kohl went first to the Yad Vashem memorial, Israel's monument to the victims of the Holocaust. As a girls' choir sang - and a cantor offered a prayer "for the dead, Kohl laid a wreath beside the eternal flame. At a dinner that evening, Shamir told his guest, "We are not prisoners of the past. We remember it out of belief in a better future...
...graduate of the 117-year-old American University of Beirut. Despite nearly a decade of civil war and continuing turmoil, the university has remained a bulwark of learning and an island of relative tranquillity in a scarred and anguished city. Last week it also became a monument to the senseless terror that besets all Lebanon. Its president, Malcolm Kerr, 52, whose life had been devoted to Arab culture and education, was shot dead by two unknown gunmen, apparently for no reason except that he was an American...
...most of its 4,500 years, the Great Sphinx stood guard over the pyramids of Giza from behind a 14-ft. limestone beard. Now, centuries after unknown forces gave the enigmatic monument a shave, some Egyptian authorities want to restore the Sphinx to its former hirsute splendor. Their interest is more than cosmetic. Because the neck of the 66-ft-high statue has been badly eroded by centuries of exposure to the elements, even a moderate earth tremor could send the entire 965-ton head rolling off. Says Culture Minister Mohammed Radwan: "The only acceptable way to avoid further deterioration...
...fragment sits in a back room at the British Museum in London. The Egyptians want the missing link reinstated. The British have agreed to loan them the fragment, but only on condition that it be returned to London within ten years and that it not be reincorporated into the monument. Fearing that Anglo-Egyptian relations may prove as hard to restore as pharaonic constructions, the Egyptians have hit upon a Solomonic solution: while negotiations continue, a temporary beard made of lightweight material will be installed to determine whether the public, and the Sphinx, can grow accustomed to a new look...
...filled to 80% of capacity. "I've always been a businessman as well as trying to be an artist. And I do love running things." With his $71,000-a-year contract at the National renewed for five years, Sir Peter seems destined to remain a lively British monument. Just like Nelson's Column. -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Mary Cronin/London