Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear nights airline pilots can see the shimmering marble flanks of the Washington Monument for 25 miles, and they bank into their landing pattern as the faithful sentinel looks on. Laid out as a city of circles and curves, Washington can be a bewildering maze to visitors. But they can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness...
...need," Levi says, "to prepare himself (and to prepare me) for an iron future, drawing closer month by month." In 1944 Sandro was executed by the Fascists, who left his body in the road. Levi's superb portrait of him in the chapter titled "Iron" remains his indestructible monument...
...Actor Fess Parker that included excerpts from presidential swearing-in addresses beginning with George Washington's in 1789. The 1 1/4-hour pageant ended with a gigantic fireworks display set off from both sides of the Ellipse and the White House South Lawn to ignite directly over the Washington Monument...
Under the auspices of the Interior Department, government workers erect a large nativity scene on the Mall near the Washington Monument. Burford is revealed to have taken several key church leaders to lunch prior to the decision to mount the display...
...November the stark black granite slashes that form the Viet Nam Memorial near the edge of the Mall in Washington got a more traditional companion piece: a statue of three American soldiers holding their weapons in various attitudes of exhaustion. The memorial is now the most visited monument in the capital. These ceremonies at last served to convey legitimacy on those who fought the war, if not upon the war itself, and thereby accomplished a healing that helped enable Americans to feel good about themselves again...