Word: objectional
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...finding the merits of each in their differential treatment of the dialectic of minimalism. “I think Maya’s project, the Vietnam Memorial, is extremely beautiful...but I don’t think it’s about absence. It’s a powerful object,” says Van Valkenburgh. He points out that in contrast, “[Arad]’s initial idea was that the Hudson flowed into these displaced tower voids...
...bikini in the first ten minutes, the better to keep males in a state of gape-jawed passivity and expectation thereafter ... Even people connected with the show seem abashed by its implicit sexism ... Farrah Fawcett-Majors, the spectacularly maned frosted blond who is first among equals as a sex object [is] seen braless on all the shows. She has even on occasion refused to don a bikini, not because she has an objection to the costume but because she felt the only rationale for it was that they had 'reached a quiet point in the script and needed my body...
...messages to the doll and receive replies. Of course, no toy show would be complete without a gaggle of robots. One of the coolest is the remote-controlled Robosapien ($100, available this summer), a 14-in.-tall bot from WowWee that can walk, dance, yawn, stretch, pick up an object and throw it and even do karate...
...finding the merits of each in their differential treatment of the dialectic of minimalism. “I think Maya’s project, the Vietnam Memorial, is extremely beautiful...but I don’t think it’s about absence. It’s a powerful object,” says Van Valkenburgh. He points out that in contrast, “[Arad]’s initial idea was that the Hudson flowed into these displaced tower voids...
...though a freedom has been granted, an institution has been threatened. "If we have homosexual marriage mainstream, I can't even describe to you what our culture will be like," warns Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America, one of the leading anti-gay-marriage organizations. Many conservatives object that such a monumental social change was sanctioned by such a small group--four of seven judges on the Massachusetts court. "We're hearing from people throughout the country," says a hoarse Glenn Stanton, spokesman for Focus on the Family, a conservative group in Colorado Springs, Colo. "They...