Word: monumented
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...time Merilee got up to bring him his pants-the garage opened on the street and their straight neighbors already resented them for Sam's pounding in the night-Sam had moved his circus pieces into the corners and was deep into the idea for a thirty-foot interlocking monument which would reveal to the seasonless people of California all the mysteries of budding and blooming. He pulled down the garage door and Merilee leaped naked for the rafters and depended her great square feast of a body in various attitudes while Sam sketched her. After seven hours...
...black man, and the lovingly detailed dens ex machina of a cop chewed to death by a threshing machine. Director William Wyler (The Friendly Persuasion), who once knew better, now forces his actors to boom their lines as if they were reading them from the base of a monument. Under his ham hand, each confrontation seems like an incitement to violence rather than understanding...
...panel is also looking into possible ways of guarding Mexican and Guatamalan monument sites...
...gallery and legally "seized" the painting, forbidding the purchaser from taking it home. They were acting on a court order obtained by Marcel de Marchéville, owner of the 478-year-old chateau. When a man's castle is his home -and is classified a national monument to boot-De Marchéville explained, the law gives the owner the right to say who may paint pictures of it. De Marchéville most emphatically had not granted that permission to Buffet...
...popular books sometimes hints of sadism, then Terry Southern is currently playing out a textbook case of masochism. For reasons known only to himself. Joe McGrath, and Peter Sellers (his two collaborators on the screenplay), Southern has reduced his stingingly satirical novelette, The Magic Christian, to a cinematic monument of horedom and banality...