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...fencers, German specialists have devised a steel-plated dummy that examines competitors' attack moves. The mannequin has a helmet-shaped head containing a high-speed camera mounted behind Plexiglas. Its torso is wired at strategic locations with tiny bulbs. When a hit is scored, a red, green or white light goes on. Tests with the dummy have shown that speed alone is not the crucial factor in a fencer's prowess. Athletes are more accurate when they take time and move deliberately in the moments preceding attack...
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...soon as a tourist steps onto the replica of a Montgomery bus, a prerecorded voice will emanate from the vicinity of the mannequin behind the wheel. "All right, you folks, I want those two seats," the facsimile driver will say. "Y'all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those two seats." In the middle of the bus, a plaster of Paris simulacrum of Rosa Parks will just sit there, a mute symbol of the incident that sparked the epic Montgomery bus boycott. "Look, woman, I told you I wanted the seat!" the mock voice...
...stage props added hints of modern style and design, giving the settings and actors an appropriately "artsy" look. The unusual crucifix used at the Duchess' excommunication was assembled from a combination of wood poles and mannequin parts. It added creative imagery to what would have otherwise been a rather orthodox scene...
...across the room (or in reproduction) looks like one of the abstract scatter pieces done by minimalist sculptors in the '70s -- Serra or Barry Le Va -- but is in fact an image of human dismemberment. Look closer, and the bits of wood turn ! out to be an artist's mannequin that Shapiro broke up in a fit of anger -- "I pulled it apart and just threw it around the room," he says to curator Deborah Leveton in the catalog interview. "It's a pretty aggressive piece." Indeed it is, almost childishly so, although its distant ancestor is a surrealist classic...