Word: prism
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Similar worries surfaced about Tony Smith's "Stinger," a diamond-shaped, 6'6" prism that had been displayed at the 1968 Museum of Modern Art sculpture garden before traveling to Europe. "Stinger," suggestive of physical transition or spiritual passage through a portal, forms a cavernous 32' square, which raised concerns about public sex, in addition to distaste for its large steel presence. Demolition prevented "Stinger"'s installation the day before it was supposed to go up. On May 25, unidentified vandals smashed the cement mount supports for the piece, forcing Tucker to send it back to its Jersey warehouse...
...artwork and to Tucker's insight on it. David Lanchester, a heavy equipment operator who's been instrumental in much of the installation, agrees that the pieces liven the campus' aesthetic appeal: "Some of it is nice, but some is a little much. It breaks up the prism look of the university and makes it more livable," he says, while playfully punching the curator who's poured his heart into the project. Tucker is aglow when he hears such words of appreciation from the public-"It's all about education," he beams...
...this for Lee: he is an equal-opportunity annoyer. He condemns whites for manufacturing the old image of the shiftless, larcenous Negro and for still seeing blacks through that warped prism. He also chastises blacks for inhabiting restrictive new and polar-opposite categories: the gangsta and the Buppie. Satire typically proceeds from two impulses: rage at the powerful and contempt for the masses. Lee has both...
...when Hunkapiller showed Venter his new ABI Prism 3700, a sequencer five times as fast and even more highly automated, Venter formed a partnership with Hunkapiller's company, Applied Biosystems (now PE Biosystems). Venter named his new outfit Celera, from the Latin for "quick." It was. Backed with an infusion of $300 million from his new collaborator, Venter boldly announced that he would sequence and assemble the entire human genome by the year...
...will look at these ideas through the prism of the IOP's mission, and perhaps try some new things," Aaron wrote. "Most importantly, we will continue to support the great contribution Harvard students make to their communities and to the world. And we'll always try to help students see the fun and the enormous value in political participation...