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...surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. Delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray...
...worst violence apparently took place near the town of Nellie, in a rice-growing area 34 miles northeast of Gauhati. There, Lalung tribesmen wielding machetes, bamboo spears and poisoned arrows massacred more than 1,000 Muslim Bengalis. The warriors swarmed through 17 villages along a stretch of the Brahmaputra River. They herded all those who were unable to flee, mostly women and children, toward a larger ambush party waiting by the river, where the Bengalis were brutally slaughtered. In one village, the bodies of children were arranged in two rows in the sunbaked rice fields while survivors dug mass graves...
...sound barrier," he says. Before anyone else made 15 ft., eleven years later, Warmerdam had done it 43 times. He held the world record 15 years. "Of course I go back to when the pole was a pretty stable instrument," he explains. Warmerdam's first bolt of bamboo carried him over high hedges and cringing livestock all across his father's spinach farm in California's San Joaquin Valley. His records were built of bamboo; steel and aluminum poles came along in the '50s, fiberglass in the '60s. Since then, the record has been improved...
...producing some of the best work of his career. Some of it involves materials quite new in his oeuvre, most notably clay. The star piece in the show at Castelli is Dirt Shrine: South, 1982, a pseudo combine in which all the disparate elements (tire track, painted chain, stone, bamboo ladder) were made from fired ceramic in Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from photographs-is fired into the glaze. The result, a hybrid...
...local militia, a sparsely equipped organization composed of former peasants, who are ill-disposed toward their Vietnamese charges. Several refugee women claim to have been raped, and men say that beatings are common. What is certain is that refugees who "misbehave" wind up spending the night in a red bamboo "tiger cage" 3 yds. long, 2 yds. wide and 1 yd. high...