Word: objectional
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Since the U.S. runs second only to Israel as an object of radical Islamic hatred--and since much of the Arab press simply doesn't report pro-American news--Bush knew that a few bighearted photo ops weren't going to have a lasting effect. And the protests in Pakistan and Afghanistan did not abate. Neither did the flood of starving refugees coming over the border from Afghanistan. The situation in Pakistan was already unstable: President Pervez Musharraf was taking huge risks for supporting the U.S. against the Taliban, and as a result had limited American access to Pakistani military...
...stringent security procedures followed by Israel's El Al airlines prompted you to ask, "Is This What We Really Want?" [AIRLINE SECURITY, Sept. 24]. Let me hasten to answer yes! That's exactly the kind of security I want from any airline I fly. Perhaps passengers who object to earlier check-in times and the bother of being searched and questioned can fly together on a separate plane. Please, don't let their reluctance to be inconvenienced endanger the rest of us. BETH JOHNSON Lederach...
...ancient art of balloon sculpture has long bewitched art historians everywhere. Indeed, balloon sculpture can be seen as a defiant assertion that an object made purely for the pleasure of the populace can be re-defined as an aesthetic object with multi-dimensional resonance beyond its superficial meaning as the most mundane of all party decorations. We can see this glorious likeness of the Statue of Liberty thus as a kind of post-modern icon: a transformation—nay, subversion—of traditional elite definitions of “high art” through the medium...
Interesting considerations have to be made when constructing objects, such as the fact that attaching colored tape to a block with toothpicks might not be the best option, because if the object were to fall, the picks could hurt someone’s head. (Pipe cleaners were the accepted alternative.) Also, the structure had to be “designed for resistance to average storms and be able to be quickly removed if a major hurricane is predicted,” according to a technical description...
...know about comicbooks but do you know about comicboxes? "Stripburger" #28, subtitled "Miniburger," ($20; Stripcore) and "Non" #5 ($22; Red Ink Press) both have to be unpacked before you can do any reading, turning them more into object d'art than ordinary books. Tiny print-run, hand-made mini-comics have explored this holistic aesthetic extensively, but there have been few such works produced on a "mass" scale. They offer a new kind of reading experience for even the most jaded comix connoisseur...