Word: containers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perpetual viewing chapels would contain row after row of glass-fronted coffins, either filed away in drawers like precious jewelry, waiting only to pulled out and viewed; or propped up on end side by side, behind one vast glass partition, like a gigantic human butterfly collection. Each corpse would be freeze-dried exactly as the deceased would like to be remembered by its living loved ones...
...sense of deja vu one gets from the show is hardly the curator's fault. It is built into the career itself. Warhol's paintings came out of a culture of mass production and reproduction, and have been run back through it so widely and often that they contain very few surprises. With a few piercing exceptions, they seem generic. His Mona Lisas are by now as famous as Leonardo's, especially for people who don't care much for old art. (Except that, for a lot of the audience, they are old art -- mysterious icons of the remote...
...some of the most prominent and populated structures: Manhattan's World Trade Center, Chicago's John Hancock Building and Houston's Astrodome. But it can be found at many ordinary addresses as well. More than 733,000 structures, or 20% of U.S. commercial and public properties, are believed to contain the mineral, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In about two-thirds of buildings with asbestos, some of the material is in a friable state, which means it is crumbling into microscopic fibers that can float through the air. (There has yet been no federal survey of single-family homes...
...20th Century Fox will put out the Star Wars trilogy, as well as the recent smash Die Hard, in the full-frame format. Even E.T. was letter- boxed on disc, and Spielberg's earlier 1941, when it arrives on disc this summer, will be in wide screen and contain some 20 minutes of previously deleted smash-and-grab comedy footage. All this feverish cinema archaeology confirms that laser disc is not only the best way to see movies but also the best way to see a lot more of them...
...fledged budget summit with the White House, but the feint did nothing to hurt the mood on Wall Street: the New York Stock Exchange surged all week, closing Friday 87.5 points higher than the week before. Moreover, after years of sleepy meetings with Ronald Reagan, the Congressmen could barely contain their enthusiasm for the more engaged Bush. Many seemed astonished that a President could think and talk extemporaneously. "He didn't need a prepared text," marveled Philadelphia Democrat Bill Gray...