Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roller's warehouse is a monument to bureaucratic bumbling. A stroll through it stirs up visions of shattered, best-forgotten programs for the public good, and the rise and fall of federal agencies. Of course Roller doesn't see it that way. He prefers to think of his 12,000-sq.-ft. warehouse on the Iowa state fairground in Des Moines as the U.S. Government's very own garage sale...
...like Montrose and Rock Creek. So do the ball fields and tennis courts (available). The city's most famous structures have always held a special power: Lincoln, white as a sheet, looking out from his inappropriate throne across the Reflecting Pool (drained now for repairs) toward the Washington Monument; the monument itself, an elongated ghost, ringed by schoolchildren, peering over the city as if to check on its prosperity...
...Trudeau patriation bill, arguing that it illegally infringes on provincial rights. Quebec Premier René Lévesque is bitterly opposed to the language-rights provision of the charter because it might restrict his province's legislative powers over education. In his view, Trudeau is "erecting a monument to himself on the tombs of our aspirations and rights...
LOON LAKE shimmers in the dewy dawn, prose and poetry, beautiful words strung like a creeping vine in a jungle of Adirondack fir. But E. L. Doctorow's images evaporate in the sunlight. He tightly wraps the vine around his totem of America then chops at this wooden monument like a pecking bird. He hunts for seedy answers to those pregnant questions only poets ask. He wants to know who we are, where we have come from, what we look like to ourselves. He whirls in a magical helix around America's spine and in the end he finds that...
Such precautions may not be needed in the future. Growing industrial pollution is slowly darkening the gleaming monument. Some worried Indian conservationists figure it may be totally discolored in 50 years...