Word: cladding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the astonishing, bewildering years when the Russians were dismantling their steel-clad Eurasian empire, David Remnick was not content to be an eyewitness to history. He waded into it, hip deep, and interviewed hundreds of politicians, generals, intellectuals and workers. Remnick, then a Washington Post correspondent, now at the New Yorker, saw his job as going where the action was, talking with the key figures and checking out the details...
Twenty-five years ago, college students across the country cheered "The Graduate's" Benjamin Braddock as he broke the shackles of tradition, brandishing a broken cross as a weapon on the altar, knocking to the ground the jacket-and-tie-clad establishment...
...advertising is stupid. There's one commercial that I keep seeing, which shows the picture of a thin, buxom woman an clad in a white swimsuit diving into a pool, superimposed on an image of Crystal Pepsi being poured. Is Pepsico trying to equate Crystal Pepsi with water? If I wanted to drink water, I would buy water, not Pepsi...
...KHAKI-CLAD AFRIKANER FARMERS WERE seething. Demonstrating under a hot Transvaal sun in Potchefstroom last week, they shouted down a junior minister in President F.W. de Klerk's Cabinet when he rose to address them. Then they gave a standing ovation to retired South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen, who demanded a halt to De Klerk's negotiations with the African National Congress and other parties...
...engineering and fabrication. Inside the main, 2,000-seat gym, a vaulting span of 262 ft. 6 in. seems to levitate the roof just off the walls, creating an intense ribbon of natural light instead of some ordinary bolts-and-concrete seam. Outside, the pair of connected buildings, both clad in perfect, curved, wafer-thin sheets of stainless steel, look like 21st century allusions to 16th century Japanese armor, at once futuristic and resonant with the past. "One of architecture's functions," Maki has said, "is to awaken subconscious memories of shapes." He does so, at Fujisawa and elsewhere...