Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the bodies were provisioned with bundles of food wrapped in alpaca skin, which indicates that the children came from the Incan social elite--not surprising, since only people of high status would have been considered worthy of sacrifice. Little is known about the sacrificial ceremony itself; these objects, along with others found at the lower camp, should tell archaeologists plenty...
...PoMo quotation, of which a gutful has been served up over the past 25 years, served a useful purpose in reminding architecture's public that, yes, there was indeed a vast repertory of form and ornament on which early, messianic Modernism had turned its back. But it was mostly skin deep, and it kept turning into a kind of false nostalgia--a parallel to the rash of "heritage" fetishism in the 1980s...
...composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power in 1996. Women, who made up 40% of doctors and 70% of teachers in the capital, were forced to abandon Western clothes and stay indoors behind windows painted black "for their own good." If they show any skin or go outside without a male relative, they risk death. Women can't be treated by male doctors, yet women aren't allowed to practice medicine. Only boys can go to school...
...community advisory issued by HUPD included a composite of the suspect. The victim described the suspect to police as a black male, 40 years old, 6'1" and 185 lbs. The suspect was also described as thinly built with very dark skin, a slight moustache and bad lower teeth...
...center in Rome is much bigger, with a budget of $86 million. But her ideas are consistent. The building is a journey. Hadid used the barracks on which the art center is to be built as a footprint and imposed a "second skin" over the site. And in the just opened German garden center, she let pre-existing garden paths suggest the flow of the building...