Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West German pavilion is filled by a rambling installation, Unlessness, 1985-88, by Felix Droese, 38. To judge from his materials, which include wooden beams salvaged from warehouses and bridges, oxidized metal, tar paper, dusty broken glass and spindly watercolor drawings, Droese is under the spell of Joseph Beuys and, to some degree, Beuys' former student Anselm Kiefer. He draws with scissors, creating silhouette cutouts (a favorite form of German folk art) on an enormous scale. They make all manner of references to pacifism, to imprisonment and the gallows, to shadow puppetry and children's drawings, and aspire toward...
...protection. Dozens took shelter at La Tienda Amigo, a retail mart near the bridge to Matamoros, Mexico, across the Rio Grande. Downpour turned to deluge, dumping two inches of rain in 30 minutes -- apparently enough to collapse the structure housing the store into a murderous heap of concrete and metal. Dozens of people were crushed or trapped in the rubble. One wall tumbled outward, killing a woman sitting in a car parked in front of the store. Anthony Padilla, a photographer for the Brownsville Herald, witnessed the scene from across the street. "The entire storefront, the windows just exploded...
...Wednesday evening, a piercing sound that one survivor described as "screaming like a banshee" -- presumed to be a pressurized natural-gas leak -- screeched through the 650-ft.-high structure, whose four massive metal feet were anchored in the sea bottom 475 ft. below the surface. Seconds later an explosion ripped the rig in two, enveloping it in a ball of flame and smoke. Miraculously, 63 crew members survived, some with severe burns, the majority with only minor injuries. But 166 died, including two rescuers. It was the worst disaster in the 25-year history of North Sea oil exploration...
...which produced 140,000 bbl. of crude a day, along with natural gas, had been in operation since 1976 and was one of the oldest of the 123 fixed platforms in the British exploration area of the North Sea. Some experts cited equipment failure or metal fatigue as possible causes of the disaster. One widely held view was that there had been a leak in the natural-gas compression apparatus and that ignition had occurred through some kind of mechanical failure...
British authorities subsequently clamped down at home by banning alcohol sales in stadiums and installing closed-circuit TV monitors and metal detectors. No use: the rowdy element among the fans -- mostly young men who labor in manual trades -- kept up its nasty ways in incidents around England...