"Often it's hard to work out what he was doing, and who for, even before his monuments work started".
Like Benidorm's In Tempo towers, the tallest residential buildings in Europe, they will be commissioned in a convulsion of optimism and greed, before becoming monuments to bad debt and human folly.
Several years ago, before Confederate monuments came toppling down amid collective recognition that American public space needed a politicized renovation, a group of women in New York City started a fund to build a statue in Central Park honoring women's suffrage.
Mimicking the structures of Solidarity, mouthing its ideals, laying wreaths before its monuments, he seeks support among the people and in the world at large by making believe he represents and embodies a great social movement that in fact he is working with the whole power of his government to crush.
Professor Hancock's reconstructions are based on data from 19th-century maps, surveys completed before the monuments were destroyed, aerial photos taken in the 1930's that show traces of walls, modern satellite and ground-radar images, and other archaeological sources.
We laid flowers and bowed before their monuments, their birthplaces, their tombs.
Between 2010 and 2016, there has been no increase in the number of educational facilities (5 before the earthquake), monuments (2 before the earthquake), and transport facilities (8 before the earthquake).
Photographs also clearly showed the ambassador bowing his head before the monument, though a State Department spokesman later denied this.
Cashman was really into it, in the interview room before the monument to Steinbrenner would be unveiled out behind center field.
By contrast, when Chancellor Willy Brandt fell to his knees before the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1970 he turned a page in German atonement for its past atrocities.
