Word: monuments
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While Conley did display the breadth of his historical and archaeological knowledge with his allusion to the terra cotta army buried with a third century B.C.E. emperor near Xi'an, China, the imagery he used in his portrayal ironically combined this monument of ancient civilization with a stero typical Charlie Chan-type caricature of the Chinese face...
...Complete Bud Powell On Verve and the four that make up The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings (Capitol), you get a deep experience of his gift and his torment. It is, much of it, great jazz. All of it is vital. These separate CD sets are neither monument nor memorial, even though this year marks the 70th anniversary of Powell's birth. Rather, the recordings provide a map of trails blazed. There are still some byways only Bud Powell dared wander down, and many that only he could find again, but a lot of piano players have followed...
...Plan 9 from Outer Space -- boasted floridly awful dialogue and actors who seemed terrified to be on camera. But Wood had passion, ambition and, as a heterosexual who enjoyed wearing women's clothes, a very chic identity crisis. His films were about something: man's need to create a monument to himself, even if it ends up as a smirk on the face of posterity...
...Monument to Union Dead...
With the Civil War won and the Union preserved, Harvard alumni in 1865 began discussing the construction of a monument to those classmates who died while fighting for the North...