At best, Mr. Schmidt will linger unconscious for decades, breathing through his respirator, costing taxpayers millions of dollars, a monument to America's fiscal crisis of 2003.
A walking, preening monument to the British masculinity crisis, a sports-science Übermensch with an indecent-exposure charge to his name.
A walking, preening monument to the British masculinity crisis, a sports science ubermensch with an indecent exposure charge to his name.
ISTANBUL -- Tuesday's triple suicide bombing on Ataturk airport, which killed at least 44 people, now stands as a monument to the gravest national security crisis in the history of Turkey.
Soaring metal prices in the 1970's and a municipal budget crisis led to much thieving, but Mr. Kuhn says monument vandalism has waned.
"It was cool that as an architect he had this existential crisis where he thought, Is my job to make monuments for rich people?" he said.
Many know it as Charm City, although it's gone by other names: Monument City,… In the wake of a crisis, the natural response of government officials is often to offer up new rules and regulations.
What crisis?" asked one headline; while a columnist described the development as a "monument to inequality".
The opportunity was taken of providing a major cultural monument to strengthen national consciousness at a time of political crisis and to symbolize the new constitutional democracy that was established in 1849.
A week after the publication of "Greater Gotham," the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments and Markers, which Bill de Blasio created in the wake of the Charlottesville crisis, held its first meeting.
