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...slave memorial to be built on the National Mall remains strong. This seems a fairly harmless gesture that might be valuable if it actually served as a balm for the historical wound. Critics point out that space on the Mall will rapidly run out if we construct a monument for every crime that western society has committed on its rise to hegemony...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Unloading 'Amistad' | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...Titanic is an easy target, by the nature of the subject itself, that great monument to the folly of arrogant confidence. But believe me, I have never felt arrogance or certainty on this project. Quite the opposite. It has been a nerve-racking, terrifying ride. The budget overages threatened to consume our very sanity; the scope of the thing was overwhelming. But something kept us going--the studio heads, myself, the crew. We knew we had a chance to do something special, and those chances don't come along often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SETTLING ACCOUNTS | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...border a few years ago and colonized one of the western states. But Bass's fiction (The Book of Yaak, In the Loyal Mountains) seems to get categorized as good-with-an-asterisk. He's regional. (So was Wallace Stegner, of course, until he became a national monument.) Bass may reach monument or even wilderness-area status in time, but for the moment he gathers honorable obscurity, and blackflies, on the shelf reserved for nature writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE WILDERNESS WITHIN | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...task of identifying the bodies was both excruciating and excruciatingly slow. A wake was held in Lyndhurst, N.J., for Teddy Shoebridge even before his body was positively identified. Six victims were never identified; today, those six bodies are buried in adjacent graves next to a monument in Spring Hill Cemetery, which overlooks the Marshall campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONUS STORY: A TRIUMPH OF WILL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...University is ranked among the top five tourist sites in Boston, and John Harvard is currently the second-most photographed statue in the country, trailing only the Lincoln Memorial. (The Statue of Liberty is technically considered a monument...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GET ON THE BUS! | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

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