Word: monumented
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...located in the shabby remains of the house where Chile's founding father, Bernardo O'Higgins, had met with the liberator of Argentina, Jose de San Martin. To the patrons swilling white wine and munching pork sandwiches, it seemed fitting to celebrate in a historic political monument−but there was no talk of politics, for the first time in memory...
...generation's box score, a monument of talent, accomplishment and appetite. George Herman Ruth−the glorious Babe of baseball−was and is the nation's finest sports legend. No one will ever replace him as the Sultan of Swat. Without Ruth, Hank Aaron and future sluggers would have no standard of greatness to be measured against...
...Santa Fe were in a festive mood when they chose the city plaza as the site for a 33-ft. obelisk dedicated to "the heroes who have fallen in the various battles with savage Indians in the Territory of New Mexico." A plaque bearing that inscription went onto the monument's cornerstone in 1868, and there is no record that anyone found it objectionable...
...Santa Fe city council turned the problem over to the state. Its solution: an explanatory plaque, to be placed alongside the offending monument, that will read in part: "Monument texts are wont to reflect the character of the time in which they are written and the temper of those who wrote them. Hopefully, attitudes change and prejudices dissolve...
This tinny reworking of the end of Easy Rider is given almost Wagnerian overtones. It is staged in Monument Valley, whose landscapes of eerie majesty have graced many a John Ford film. The camera tracks slowly back along the white divider line of the highway for minute upon minute, while a rock group intones a suitable overorchestrated threnody. Here and throughout, Conrad Hall's photography is resourceful but a little fancy. Like Guercio, he seems more concerned with embellishing a scene than getting at its essence...