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What I'm going to be doing is building a small, completely clear glass box. It'll be dangling from a crane near the River Thames. It'll be about 22 1/2 ft. up, about that, and I'll be hovering there for 44 days with absolutely nothing except for water to drink...
...think of it as art. I'm a framed human being. I'm basically building a glass frame and putting myself there to display what I think is the ultimate work of art, which is human suffering...
Glow Girl, a hip boutique in Mill Valley, Calif., gives prospective customers clear visual clues as to the nature of its business: the mannequins in the window have protruding bellies, and painted on the glass is the word MATERNITY underneath a silhouette of a woman with a bump. But that doesn't stop some unsuspecting--and not-expecting--women from entering Angela Mavridis' year-old store, lured by familiar brand-name fashion and accessories...
...first medium to discuss controversial social issues, such as teen marriage or sexual harassment, and even to introduce the latest Japanese fashion trends. But unlike many of her peers in the Japanese TV biz, Kitagawa doesn't try to track the country's famously ephemeral trends with a magnifying glass and a questionnaire. Instead she goes straight to the source for inspiration. "I don't think too much about the current situation in Japan," she says. "My marriage, having a child, those are the things that most affect me and my scripts...
That house does have street-side windows. At street level there's one line of reflective-glass squares set flush with the wall surface. Another line at the second story is deeply recessed to emphasize the thickness of the walls. All the same, the first impression is of a place that's dark and impregnable. But as with the Elektra house, there's a surprise inside: the interiors are so filled with light that you could read a sundial in any of the rooms. To cross the threshold from the mildly forbidding exterior to the glowing entry hall is like...