Word: handiworks
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...wore on, the sounds of violence from the camps became more sporadic. In the afternoon, the militiamen began covering up their handiwork. Around 3 p.m., a European diplomat saw a bulldozer backing down a side street of Shatila. Its scoop was filled with bodies...
...thing to contemplate is that these bizarre constructions are the handiwork of the society to which they stand as outcasts. Monstrous as they may appear, they belong to the recognizable world of a civilization's institutions, just as the men and women they house, no matter what they have done, belong to the world of those they violated. These people are presented here, flat against the page, as if they were separated entirely from those who observe them. But it is chastening to realize that the life they lead is no less real to them than life...
...painstaking application of layers of fiber glass over a homemade frame. The materials cost about $140, and some budding capitalists sell their boards for as much as $420. At the Klyazma Reservoir, twelve miles north of Moscow, a 26-year-old graduate student in mathematics showed off his handiwork. "My first board took a month to build," he says, "but once I got the hang of it, I could do it in a week...
JHANE BARNES. "My paperbag pocket?" says Barnes to a visitor as she searches her studio for an example of her handiwork. "Here, it's on this jacket here. I kept it 'cause the cat peed on it." Barnes, 28, admits to doing "kind of spacy designs. But in a time when kids are playing electronic games, we shouldn't be bringing back Argyle socks." Barnes, like Armani, designs her fabric, but goes so far as to weave a sample swatch on her own hand loom, whipping up wild combos of silk, cotton and wool. "I found that...
...photographers were Venera (for Venus) 13 and 14, the latest in a series of Soviet robot envoys to the earth's nearest planetary neighbor. Venera 13 lasted two hours and seven minutes on the Venusian griddle, while its twin worked about half as long. But their handiwork survived to become the hit of the show at the 13th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston last week. As the photographs were shown to some 560 scientists, most of them Americans, oohs and aahs rose from the audience. Says University of Minnesota Physicist Robert Pepin: "There was no small amount...