Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insatiable appetite of a capitalist society for junk food, junk movies--in short, junk values. It would also point an accusing finger at the American propensity for materializing and objectifying life; through, for example, the starmaking machinery in New York and Los Angeles, which manufactures individuals into cardboard cutouts and then expresses shock when they age, bleed...
...used in the two and a half hours of mayhem. As Bruhl asks early on. "What's the point of owning a mace if you don't use it?" The mace and most of the swords, axes, knives and guns would make any collector proud, but one large cardboard-looking saber in the middle of the back wall stands...
...Grenada invasion, and the new assertiveness it exemplifies, may be that it resurrects in Latin America the "Yankee imperialist" stereotype that the U.S. has been struggling to shake off. "Gringos out of Grenada," was the cry in front of the U.S. embassy in Mexico City as a cardboard Reagan was burned in effigy. The Mexican Senate denounced the U.S. as an aggressor and said the invasion violated the "principle of nonintervention...
From nothing but "a cardboard box with $300,000 in debts, no employees, no phones, no plan"?actually locked out of its first office after a credit check?the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee has burgeoned in four years to something greater than phenomenal. The L.A.O.O.C. plan: Don't build any sports palaces, refurbish the Memorial Coliseum. Spread the Olympic Village lightly over U.S.C., U.C.L.A. and U.C., Santa Barbara. Dot the megalopolis with stirring events. "We didn't have the three top sources of income available to all prior Olympic Games," Ueberroth (pronounced you-ber-roth) says...
...finished form is still a year away, but in his studio a half-size cardboard model made by Hadzi's assistant Romolo Deldeo '82 stands as a preview. Once again, three posts of different colored six-foot tall granite blocks act as a base for stainless steel units on top. With what Hadzi calls a "mysterious, mystical effect," water will come out the top, disappear into the stainless steel, and electrically recycle itself. The water never reaches the ground...