Word: metallism
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...exasperated her. "It's so endless to be old," she said in 1981. "It's too goddam bad that you're rotting away." The brilliant schoolgirl, intoxicated by life's promise and challenge, had become a sere biddy. The famous voice, now as cutting and quivery as sheet metal, might have sounded scolding to a grandchild. But Hepburn had no grandchildren, no children, no Spence. She was alone...
...flowers in Cynthia Breazeal's garden are like no blossoms you've ever seen. Fashioned of metal and silicone and embedded with electronic sensors, they are actually robots that react to light and body heat by bobbing, swaying, spinning and changing color. Put your hand in front of one, and its petals contract into a bud and turn bright green or red. Stand near another, and notice how the soft, ambient music in the background changes pitch. Now showing at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, through January 2004, Cyberflora Installation was created by Breazeal...
...island appeared abandoned, the brightly painted mustard and rose buildings that cater to vacationers shuttered, flanked only by the occasional uniformed soldier and his strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...
...tight security lead to several clashes between U.S. Secret Service and their Senegalese hosts. Local luminaries in the audience simply bypassed by the security checkpoint constructed on the dock, refusing to suffer the indignity of the metal detector streaming by arguing officials in traditional African one-piece garments that seemed to move independently of their owners. U.S. officials tried their best to gingerly manage the cultural differences, especially with local security forces. "If he wants to keep his gun he's going to have to wear this pin," said a frustrated U.S. Secret Service agent speaking through an interpreter...
...precursor chemicals for its chemical and biological weapons programs from Europe, China and Russia, according to U.S. and South Korean officials. The freighter that took the North Korean Scuds to Yemen returned to the North via Germany, loading up with a shipment of sodium cyanide?a chemical used in metal plating and gold extraction that can also be used to make nerve gas. That shipment was blocked by German and French authorities. Germany also recently blocked a North Korea-bound consignment of aluminum tubes?key components for the centrifuges used to enrich uranium to bomb-grade quality. Chinese companies have...