Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students who broke the window were not punished for racial harassment. Instead, members of the board were concerned by "the nature of the weapon and the recklessness of using a catapult capable of breaking safety glass at 100 yards," said one Ad Board member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity...
...morning was balmy, a refreshing California contrast to the withering heat at earlier stops across the Sunbelt. Entering a modern, glass-walled dining hall in the San Fernando Mission complex in north Los Angeles, Pope John Paul II stopped frequently as he worked his way through a gathering of 320 American Roman Catholic bishops. It was an exceptionally cordial encounter, and the Pope lingered an unscheduled 45 minutes to continue the informal exchanges before a closed-door session began. Again, after the meeting, the atmosphere was relaxed and genial at an outdoor buffet lunch at small tables under white umbrellas...
...film's altered states are enhanced by a soundtrack that accompanies and complements the wordless action--just what Philip Glass's music did for Koyaanisqatsi. Composer Michael Stearns presents a new age, Tangerine Dream/Andreas Vollenweider sound, adding exotic drums and bells that complete the foreign aura...
...nothing," she says), Ishioka returned to Tokyo after two years; then her interest shifted to U.S. and European projects. There was the Mishima movie and a Miles Davis album cover, and now she is at work on sets for M. Butterfly, a Broadway play, and for a Philip Glass opera to be produced in New York. "In the '80s," she says, "I would like to cause a commotion outside Japan...
...department stores, cafes, bars. Take, for instance, Lucchino's, a bar in Tokyo's chic Nogizaka district. It is a medium-size space for Japan; the lighting is theatrically pink and orange, the fixtures neo-1920s. A significant detail: the middle tier of the long, three-tier art deco glass bar is cracked deliberately. One might as well be in Milan. Lucchino's is the work of Shiro Kuramata, 52, a furniture and interior designer with a considerable reputation in Europe as well as Japan. His boutiques around the world for Issey Miyake are black chain-link nests. The feel...