Word: choos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were sitting on a tinderbox," said Marsha Choo, who serves as a mediator between the Black and Korean communities as Los Angeles program director for the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center. "There aren't institutions in place that allow people to dialogue about race relations...
...Choo said that the situation in Los Angeles has eased up somewhat from that of a year...
...think there is some hope...Divided, polarized as we are [Los Angeles], there are some areas of cooperation," Choo said...
Koons' work is a late footnote to Pop art that relies on one obsessive device: the exaggeration of the aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny...
...where high-speed rail travel is a commonplace. The consortium promises a 1 1/2-hour Dallas-to-Houston run by 1998 (the trip now takes four hours by car). Opposing the move is Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, which foresees government bailouts, high ticket prices and eventual failure for the futuristic choo-choo. If it is wrong, Southwest may have a hard time competing with the bullet, even though air travel is swifter still...