Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slowly replacing all the old single-pane windows. The hilly neighborhood has a virtually all-white population of about 7,000, with an average household income of $52,537. Lori's is a street of $79,000 starter homes that people stay in for 30 years, brick bungalows with metal awnings and a ribbon of lawn that skips from house to house. For years the mainline Forest Park patriarchs of St. Louis looked down on the German immigrants who settled this south side because they were forever washing those neat cement porches and tight little windows. They called them...
...neck--where a man's Adam's apple would be--a clear, plastic tube extends out from underneath her high collar. The tube leads to the back of her wheelchair and connects to a large, black metal...
Around the same time, a Crimson reporter referred to the traditional Korean music performed at an ethnic studies rally as "banging on drums and metal lids." An astute reader complained that such a description seemed like an anthropological description of a Martian ritual and not a celebration of the heritage of Harvard's Korean-Americans...
...museum heralds the show--a formative 1968 series--as Rabinowitch's first such exhibition in the United States. Apparently, at first only Europeans had felt strangely attracted to the tidy little masses of metal, but now we can all enjoy what might best be called the "Under-Foot Collection...
...very least, the whole scene presents a play on the entire museum setting: just as you lean to examine one of the preparatory sketches, it becomes clear that an unlabelled scratched-up chunk of metal with no pedestal whatsoever is cowering before your feet. The process of stopping, side-stepping and viewing again lends a jerky mechanical rhythm to the experience that becomes inseparable from the act of appreciating each work individually...