Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Above the city, on a high hill, stands a ten-story | statue of the Virgin holding the baby Jesus. A metal halo is riveted over the Virgin's head. One can enter the monument at the base and climb up inside it. Dan hesitates at the top because the protective wall has been shot away. This was a recent P.L.O. position. An antiaircraft gun was set up there. Below the Virgin, the Israeli army mills. "I hate war," says Dan, out of the blue...
Today, the desert terrain is animated by Caterpillar tractors, huge construction cranes hovering over the metal skeletons of warehouses and the rising silhouettes of four mini-Astrodomes that will serve as petrochemical storage tanks. A seemingly endless procession of huge earth movers trundles sand and rock to the water's edge, where the fill is used to extend an immense quarter-mile-wide causeway, one of the largest landfill operations of its kind. When completed in 1985, the six-mile-long causeway will provide berths for up to 18 ocean-going cargo ships at a time. At its farthest...
...much as $200 for a nine-mile ride, depending on how dangerous an area you want to go to." Of course, the whereabouts of danger was unpredictable. On a quiet street, a small van blew up less than 50 yards ahead of Suro, sprinkling his car with glass and metal shards. What happened, he reports, was that "a Palestinian fighter attempting to remove a wounded comrade from the the van accidentally set off a grenade he was carrying...
...office but also one of the most public of public buildings. On a pleasant summer day as many as 8,000 visitors line up along the east side of the White House. They now enter at the east gate, opposite the Department of the Treasury Building. They pass through metal detectors under the East Portico...
...wood. More over, pieces like the Danko Chair are light in weight and appearance and thus well suited to small apartments. With delight ful ingenuity, Danko is experimenting with folding chairs of molded plywood. One of the plies is a bendable, plastic material, so the chair folds without metal hinges...