Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gasior's quiet life prepared her for the ordeal she has undergone in the past three years. The petite former attorney for Kennametal Inc., a Pennsylvania machine-tool maker, says she has been harassed, followed and even run off the road since she accused the company of illegally shipping metal-working equipment with military uses to Iraq. But Gasior has persisted in her whistle-blowing ways. She has now amassed evidence that, she says, threatens to expose the misdeeds of American companies as well as a vast Bush Administration cover-up of how scores of firms, some using U.S.-backed...
Gasior, 31, stumbled into the hothouse world of Iraqi trade after joining Kennametal, a Fortune 500 company, at its Latrobe, Pennsylvania, headquarters near Pittsburgh in 1989. Gasior became alarmed when she discovered that a shipment of carbide metal-working tools to Baghdad -- tools that could be used to cut uranium -- might be illegal. She also learned of Kennametal sales to Matrix Churchill, Iraq's main U.S. purchasing agent, which was gathering materiel for projects like the infamous Supergun. She says she warned company officers that Kennametal was not following export regulations, and questioned other company practices. Within nine months...
Next year, these students will be housed in Matthews and Hurlbut halls, where they can use metal keys to enter side doors on the Sabbath, according to College housing officials
...hatchet and applying some surface treatment -- but she does not carve them beyond that. Each wrinkled bole with its splayed limbs and fissures keeps its tree-ness and does not become mere timber, raw material. Abakanowicz preserves the body of the tree, and then she fits this body with metal shells, prongs and armatures, sometimes binding it as well with strips of burlap like mournful bandages. Thus you find yourself looking at something large, somber, mutilated and of irresistible physical power. Brenson points out that the War Games pieces are all, in some degree, elegiac; they convey a mourning...
Each trunk is laid horizontally on trestles or a steel frame. All are, in some legible or at least imaginable way, figures. Great Ursa, 1987, suggests a woman giving birth. The wooden trunk of Giver, 1992, is shaped like an enormous hand. The metal beak of Sroka, 1992, juts at you like the ramming prow of an ancient galley, while the big blade of steel that splits the body of Winged Trunk, 1989, could be read either as a weapon that has given the body its deathblow or as a protective shield. Sometimes the metal fittings read as shells...