Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from Hong Kong in 1972 to study design. She stayed to work for Calvin Klein and Geoffrey Beene, then launched her own clothing line in the early 1980s. By 1988, however, she abandoned clothing design to concentrate on what seemed like an impossible artistic ambition: giving metal objects the look of some of the shifting and sinuous forms she saw in underwater visions while scuba diving. Somehow she brought it off: Lam can give steel the look of draped silk...
Avery's installation alters the disease to the point of ominous abstraction. A traditional sterile hospital bed and two metal chairs are housed between the two walls and a gabled pine-rafter roof. Beach ball-sizes models of the HIV virus hang from the gallery ceiling over the clinic's roof. These black balls, marked by a wood-cut print of the HIV virus's polka-dot structure, envelop patient, doctor, and visitor alike...
UniLu is safer than other shelters in the area, Wayne added. Guests must register with the shelter before nights when they wish to stay. Upon arrival, they must empty their pockets and pass through a metal detector...
...director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, hurries us past all the desperate explanations required by sequels to movies that ended up pretty definitively (the last we saw of Ripley in Alien 3, she was taking a dunk in molten metal). Since most of these are incomprehensible anyway, especially as they are constantly interrupted by fires, floods and explosions, Jeunet is eager to get on with the really scary stuff. This is not, given the movie's self-satirizing impulse, as terrifying as it once was. But on the whole, the eek-for-yuks trade-off is more than fair--hip without being...
...Washington the emphasis is on perimeter security: more guards, better fences, metal detectors, no-parking zones around key buildings. At the CIA there is a big, new guardhouse outside the gate. The agency has also beefed up what is probably the most effective line of defense, its efforts to gather every sort of intelligence to pinpoint terrorist plots before they can be carried out. The Counter Terrorism Center, run by the CIA and FBI, has been expanded and put on round-the-clock operation...