Word: monumented
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...praise gay men. Armed with tierce wigs, dangerous pumps, elegant gowns, and daggered puns (sounds a bit like Stonewall, n'est-ce Pas?), the Hasty Pudding's Romancing the Throne has achieved a monument to camp, a piercingly funny edifice to the fine art of bombastic play. I do not mean to imply that gay is camp is gay (or even, God forbid, that the Hasty Pudding is gay). But gay men have always had a particular propensity for camp, and if this year's show is any indication, gay men still contribute a great deal to the preservation...
Bush wandered around the South Lawn, looking, absorbing the beauty and the meaning. The Washington Monument shone with the eager sunlight. Farther on, the Jefferson Memorial glowed warmly...
...ageless beauty makes Eliane convincing as both a young woman in love with Vietnam and a grandmother ready to raise another orphan and make it her own. In 1985 the actress was the model for the French national symbol Marianne. Deneuve's presence in Indochine is like some burnished monument to the French spirit miraculously preserved on the streets of Saigon...
...children into his own home for six months while she underwent a treatment program. He knows there are risks, both physical and emotional, that go with extending a hand to children. "I love all kids," says Earl, "but I trust them as far as I can throw the Washington Monument. Some of these kids have known only violence. It's like entering a lion's cage with steak in all your pockets -- you come out all chewed up." Moments later, he is comforting a fifth-grade boy who has fallen on the playground...
...third sequence, "A monument in Utopia," draws a parallel between the death of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam at the hands of Stalin and the death of poetry itself in a cynical society. Primarily concerned with images of death and destruction, the third sequence also holds out a ray of hope for resurrection, a rebirth of faith and idealism. By the end of the third sequence, Schnackenberg encapsulates the whole pageant of human history in a few line...