Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kitchen are rusted cast-iron stoves, muffin tins in the ovens, wire whisks the size of basketballs suspended from a rack. From down a dim passageway comes the sound of boots crunching glass underfoot, and out into the light appears a rat patrol, four hard hats spreading poison. From the darkest corners the beams of contractors carrying out inspections by flashlight dance around like fireflies...
Insofar as he settles anywhere on earth, Korean-born Video Artist Nam June Paik, 53, lives in Manhattan. More specifically, he inhabits the top of a converted warehouse with a rusting cast-iron facade in SoHo. Entree to Paik's aerie comes via a freight elevator, with the host himself hauling on the chain pulley that drags the motor into grumbling life. As the aging contraption shakes and shudders toward the fifth floor, Paik says in heavily accented English, "After this, everything anticlimax...
Singled out for equally harsh criticism were Iron-and-Steel Industry Minister Ivan Kazanets, 67, in office for 20 years; Agricultural Machine-Building Minister Konstantin Belyak, 69, twelve years on the job; and Building- Materials Industry Minister Alexei Yashin, 66, appointed only six years ago. Gorbachev attacked all of them for failing to meet production quotas (in Kazanets' case, for the past 15 years) while raising their departments' budgets. Said Gorbachev: "I think we are not fellow travelers of those executives who hope to draw the country again into vast, unjustified spending...
Russell's sincerity even provoked him to call for a dinner with Derek Bok and the entire city council last winter to iron out a few town-gown rough spots...
...important clue to the magnesium factor came from Kass's earlier research on diphtheria, which is also caused by a bacterial toxin. He recalled that when deprived of iron, the diphtheria microbe produces excessive amounts of toxin. "You comb your mind for something you can get a hold on," he says, and the diphtheria-iron connection "leaped right out." Through a trial-and- error process, Kass and his team found that magnesium played a parallel role with Staph. aureus...