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...symbol of the transactions between nature and culture. The show also demonstrates how the influence of the animals in Venice has survived for more than seven centuries, in copies, studies, models and full-scale figures ranging from medieval miniatures to Antonio Canova's design for a monument to George Washington...
Outside, an evening of cold beauty also seemed to diminish the inside warning. A Monument moon rode high, and the city from the Washington Monument to the Capitol dome was proudly luminescent. With luck it will stay that way. But we seem to be pushing...
...U.S.S.R. is determined to turn them into a model show. Over the past three years, the Soviets have spent, by their official figures, $375 million in preparation for the Olympics, including the construction of 99 arenas, dormitories and other buildings. The Moscow Olympics are meant to be a monument to the Soviets' selfesteem, an extravaganza of self-congratulation that in a way betrays their profound insecurities. With so tempting a target, the Carter Administration last week was doing some purposeful sighting. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced a mid-February deadline for a Soviet pull-out from Afghanistan...
They transformed the band of undeveloped land that had once fortified the medieval city into the Ringstrasse, a sweeping monument to reason and prosperity. Museums and apartment houses went up in profusion, stony rebukes to the older aristocratic arrogance of church and palace. Lacking a past of their own, the bourgeois builders raided history for architectural facades. Critics arose to deride this use of art to disguise true functions. Something else about this vast project seems to have escaped notice: in its broad circularity, the Ringstrasse led nowhere...
More important, at the end of the convenient time span that has frequently been called the "Me Decade," reassurance lies in the fact that there remains at least one monument to endurance and selflessness. The beauty of sport stems from the symmetry inherent in the relationship between the individual and the team. Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers, whose familiar autograph graces even baseball gloves in Canada, mirrors the spirit...