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...strolled through the Yard this weekend, I came upon a freshman dormitory wrapped entirely in plastic--clearly the work of the conceptualist artist and '70s icon, "Christo," who is better known for having enclosed a small Pacific island and the London Bridge entirely in Gore...
...have passed into Serbia by rail alone since the embargo was imposed on May 31. Add to that heavy truck traffic and considerable small-time smuggling, and it becomes clear that the ban is not working very well. "We are following the sanctions to the letter," says customs official Christo Christov at Kalotina, "but considering the amount of traffic through here, the Serbs are going to get through the winter just fine...
...attempt to return the "Christo et Ecclesiae" the University's original "Veritas" motto, the Graduate School Christian Fellowship launched its first Veritas Forum this week...
...imported team of Hungarian carpenters; it has a solitary, mysterious-looking hydroponic oak tree growing inside. The Netherlands' eco-pavilion is exemplary, novel and fun. An open steel superstructure crisscrossed by escalators and ramps, this not-quite-a-building is wrapped, as if by a Whole Earth Christo, in perpetually waterlogged canvas netting, meant to cool the interior by 10 degrees or more. Expo '92, like the 1939 and 1964 world's fairs, also has its obligatory giant globe, in this case a 70-ft. "bioclimatic sphere" that pumps out a fine cooling mist over a vast stretch of outdoor...
...weeks ago, the environmental artist Christo, wrapper of seacoasts, had 1,760 giant umbrellas implanted and opened in the bald, dun landscape of the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles (1,340 more were simultaneously opened in Japan). The art seemed very California, surreal, whimsical, harmlessly airheaded, vaguely haunting -- the umbrellas disconnected from practical function and somehow mocking the grand scenery: a conceptual joke. But then high winds rose. By a kind of sinister telekinesis, one of the giant umbrellas lifted out of the earth, flew across the landscape and crushed a woman to death...