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Martin Moore, winemaker at Groot Constantia, a working farm since 1685, is determined to re-create those fabulous red Muscats of the past. Along with a number of other wine estates whose histories go back more than 300 years, Groot Constantia is a national monument. Museum pieces in their own right, many of the stately, whitewashed Dutch-style farm buildings, with thick walls and high ceilings of oak and teak, are tasting rooms...
...Tiananmen Square--the very heart of the Middle Kingdom, where students had demonstrated in 1919; where Mao had proclaimed a "People's Republic" in 1949 on behalf of the Chinese people who had "stood up"; and where leaders customarily inspect their People's Liberation Army troops--is a virtual monument to People Power in the abstract. Its western edge is taken up by the Great Hall of the People. Its eastern side is dominated by the Museum of Chinese Revolution. The Mao Zedong mausoleum swallows up its southern face...
...daily newspaper, a broadcasting tent, even a 30-ft. plaster-covered statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy." Their "conference hall" was a Kentucky Fried Chicken parlor on the southwest corner of the square, and their spokesmen were 3,000 hunger strikers who spilled all over the central Monument to the People's Heroes. The unofficials even took over, and reversed, the formal symbolism of the government's ritual pageantry: when Mikhail Gorbachev came to the Great Hall of the People for a grand state banquet during the demonstrations--the first visit by a Soviet leader in 30 years...
...talking about a place that used to beover one-third Jewish," Wisse says. "You'd go tothe most beautiful glens near every city and town[and there is] a monument to 5,000 killed, 10,000people killed...
Clearly, change comes slowly to the Harvard Faculty Club, a monument to the Ivory Tower where long-time professors and administrators gather to drink sherry and talk shop in green velvet armchairs. Little seems to have changed since the Club was built...