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Fast-food architecture is coming full circle too. Two years ago, outside Chicago, the deconstructionist New York firm SITE built a sublime McDonald's. The basic kit of pieces was standard, but SITE made the whole restaurant seem to hover: brick walls are cantilevered up off the ground, the roof floats above the walls. Decadent, maybe, but delightful too. In heartland suburbia, the highest of high camp has thus been achieved. When kitsch icons like McDonald's come with their own built-in ironic critique, an epoch must...
...downtown Miami the drug busters have just finished building an ultramodern electronic command post that resembles the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek. Drug agents hover 24 hours a day over four multicolored radar screens that display the entire region's traffic. When authorities spot a suspicious craft, they quickly calculate which law- enforcement boats or planes can make the fastest interception. Then they dispatch the police craft with a state-of-the-art radio network that puts dozens of federal and local agencies on the same wavelength. Customs Service technicians built the system from scratch, starting with...
...girl and her friend, the shoes are an event. They fall about each other, laugh and shiver, hold one another. When they've finished they bum Djakarta cigarettes from a nearby skinhead. The girl turns back to me, looking bored. Her eyes, brown and indolent, hover above and beyond, taking in the passersby, the shopfronts, the traffic, her friends...
Backstage, the models are sitting half naked on the dressing-room floors, painting pink and blue Kabuki stripes on their eyelids. The dressers hover over their racks, rolling pink and yellow and gray pantyhose for instant changes. The hat, jewelry, makeup and music co-ordinators stand ready. "Take it off, it's too white," says Galanos, snatching a rope of beads from the neck of a black-and-white coat. The models line up for the opening parade. Makeup and style have reduced them to pure line and angle. They look like fashion sketches of, say, 1936. They swagger...
...Students still hover around the January I deadline in submitting their applications," Jewett said, making the April I goal nearly impossible. "We agreed to move the date up but made no commitment to the first of the month-April 10 was a compromise," he said...