The son of a sculptor who worked on Mount Rushmore, Mr. Houser, 63, envisions his monument -- a 36-foot bronze equestrian statue of a Spanish colonizer who founded the first European settlements in the Southwestern United States -- one day towering over the border between the United States and Mexico with the power of the Statue of Liberty.
Independence Day, Towering Inferno, Die Hard, Executive Decision, Collateral Damage, Air Force One, King Kong, Godzilla, Deep Impact, The Siege - maybe it's quicker just to list all the films which don't contain a premonition of the World Trade Centre being blown to smithereens.
By the end of the day: towering piles of the thing on every surface, ready to be returned to the publisher.
Within the tangle of international politics and conflicting philosophies of architectural restoration, Angkor Wat, with its beautiful honeycomb towers is, in reality, a latter-day Tower of Babel.
Two and a half months and about 6,000 Post-It notes later, a work of art was born: Ms. Borgnet used the random communiqués to form a latter-day "Tower of Babel" (or babble, rather) built upon a theme of confusion and information overload.
To avoid this modern-day Tower of Babel, we must act now while the window of opportunity remains open.
At the screening Wednesday, towering with gorgeous girls in bondage gladiator heels and threaded with famous designers, one designer not favored by Anna muttered that she was a sartorial Star Chamber who smothered creativity.
The waves on Tuesday towered up to 20 metres and moved at 25mph so without any mechanical assistance and in a howling wind, to be in the right place to avoid an immediate and potentially fatal wipeout required every bit of his 16 years of experience as a professional.
Exchange ratesPerhaps economic historians will look back on today's patchwork global exchange-rate arrangements as a latter-day Tower of Babel.
