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...putting up 40% of construction costs, the autoroute died on the drawing board. Then Giscard vetoed new high-rise apartments that were planned to replace the picturesque artists' colony of Cité Fleurie. Next he blocked construction of an office tower, which Pompidou once described as a "monument to my presidency," on the now cleared grounds of the old Les Halles market. Instead, Giscard ruled that the whole area be turned into a 13-acre garden-the first major park in Paris since Bois de Boulogne was created over a century...
...authors finally blame Haldeman for the act that ultimately finished Nixon: the secret taping of White House conversations. It was Haldeman's idea, they suggest, that after Nixon finished his second term, the tapes would be carefully edited and selected conversations would be left to stand as a monument to Richard Nixon and his presidency -"a sort of electronic answer to Mount Rushmore...
...innumerable and quirkish side channels away from the so-called "mainstream" of modern art, Hirshhorn has done the state a service. But this will only remain a virtue if the museum has generous funds to fill in the gaps; it would be fatal to treat it as a static monument to one man's taste...
Neizvestny's monument, which will be formally unveiled this week on the third anniversary of Khrushchev's death, is symbolically strong, a massive (9 ft. high, 5 ft. wide) abstract of white marble and black granite with a bronze bust of Khrushchev in the center. The white and black blocks, says Neizvestny, represent the bright and dark periods of Khrushchev's career, as well as the bright and dark periods of Soviet life...
Though Moses is still sharp-tongued and healthy at age 85, his epitaph, as Author Robert Caro points out, might well be the same as that of 17th century British Architect Christopher Wren: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice (If you would see his monument, look around...