Word: monumented
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...abstractionists were mostly dry, the more traditional painters were soggy. Even the much-admired ones often succeeded by mere competence. Henry Koerner's blend of banality and obscurity, Fire on the Beach, was an ashen canvas warmed by brilliant drawing alone. John Koch's The Monument was curious in content and cottony in color, but it had a complexity and depth of composition that few moderns could bring off. Isabel Bishop's Nude Bending (one of the show's few nudes) was so dimly painted it looked like a fading wraith, but its every line...
...religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice...
Eugene Higgins had a $100,000 monument built over his grave when he died. But in the field of Science, there has been erected a $38,500,000 monument...
Formosa today is a shabby monument to the policy of "containing Communism" by supporting anybody who opposes it. These several hundred thousand troops living partially on U. S. doles are a sad commentary on the shortsightedness of American diplomacy, which backed the politics of Chiang Kai-Shek against the reforms of the Mao-Tse Tung...
...proposed to turn the Yard into a pristine monument, with its broad blotches of green unmarred by any students or local citizens resting comfortably. And over it all will be heard the lament of petty police authority: "I don't make the rules; I just carry them...