Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oracle Temple of Siwa Oasis. The walls of this 4th century B.C. temple, where Alexander the Great was supposedly crowned King of Egypt, have developed cracks and are in danger of falling. Egyptian officials hope to save the monument by moving it piece by piece from its present site on shifting sand in the Western Desert to firmer ground. The big question is where...
Deir al-Bahri. A 3,400-year-old tomb-and-temple complex near Luxor, it is threatened by landslides from a nearby mountain. The most likely remedy is a + chain-link fence to protect the monument from falling rocks. Meanwhile, the Polish Center of Archaeology in Cairo has been doing restoration work on parts of the temple. One project: using gypsum to patch up and refinish a statue of the god Osiris...
...thing I like to share with people is the Truman Balcony. You're looking across at the ((Washington)) Monument and at the Jefferson Memorial. And you see the people sometimes. If we were there right now, we'd see the people looking up past those beautiful flowers and fountains. You see the people's house symbolized by the people looking in. It's not some naive view. We're talking about the people's house, and a continuity. I said to Prime Minister Zaid Rifai,* "You guys have to come out here and see something before you leave...
...pluralism, and welcomes everyone into its ranks. Its central steering committee is an umbrella organization for dozens of local chapters that open their doors to any citizens' groups with a worthy cause. In Tartu the Popular Front joined with the environmentalist Greens and the local branch of a monument- preservation society to stage an evening of "public accounting," during which municipal leaders ran a gauntlet of tough questioning. Says Lauristin: "We are seeking a way to make the transition from totalitarianism to democracy and begin a normal exchange between the authorities and the people...
...least two institutions are dedicated to examining the bitter truth about the past. A Politburo commission formed by Gorbachev has rehabilitated such figures as Nikolai Bukharin, shot after a frame-up show trial in 1938. A rapidly growing group called Memorial aims to build a monument to Stalin's victims and establish an archive and research center to document his crimes...