Man, those Soviets could build monuments. Why don't we have cool monuments like that here? We seem to have gone straight from Classical to Utterly Abstract, and skipped the cool Political Realism phase. Not even the Art Moderne stuck around long enough to do more than a few griffons in front of libraries, or Atlases holding up things in the lobby of some New York skyscrapers. I want Alan Shepard gazing off into the future, or Harry Truman with his sleeves rolled up and fists the size of his head, or a JFK who looks like a hood ornament for a very fast sports car.