Word: austria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strange universe of performance art. But then he does nothing so routine as, say, recite sonnets while cartwheeling nude across a stage. Lanier is a virtual-reality performance artist. In his piece, The Sound of One Hand, which has played to packed theaters in Chicago, Toronto and Linz, Austria, he appears onstage framed by the image of a virtual world he enters when he dons special goggles and a DataGlove. His audience sees what he sees -- and what he does, which is bend and stretch like some contorted stork. His movements elicit eerie, tinkling notes from the computer-generated virtual...
...reasons Mathis may sound so sure of his unorthodox arrangement is that the SOS Village, and a sister operation in Florida, are part of a mammoth chain based in Innsbruck, Austria. Founded in 1949 for war orphans, SOS- Kinderdorf International, now established in 124 countries, cares for a total of 180,000 children. In each "village," the concept is the same: long- term residency and house mothers who commit to 20 years with the project...
...European Union, with 52.2% of voters opposing E.U. membership and 47.8% supporting it. With its rich fisheries and large North Sea oil and gas deposits, Norway saw no advantage in joining the 12-member trading bloc, due to expand to 15 on Jan. 1 with the admission of Austria, Finland and Sweden. It was not the first time the country had spurned a proposal from Europe: in 1972 Norwegians passed up the opportunity to join what was then the European Economic Community...
Addressing Israel's parliament, Austria's president apologized today for his country's role in the Holocaust. Austrians have rarely acknowledged the fact that "many of the worst henchmen in the Nazi dictatorship were Austrians," President Thomas Klestil said. "Today, we Austrians recognize that an acknowledgment of the full truth was long overdue." The speech came at the end of Klestil's three-day visit to Israel -- the first by an Austrian head of state. For years, Austria denied persecuting Jews during World War II, even though 70,000 died within its borders. The relationship between Israel and Austria...
Asked if he felt indebted to Russia for helping crush the Hungarian uprising in 1848, Austria's Prince Schwarzenberg replied, "Austria will astound the world with the magnitude of her ingratitude." So will Haiti...