Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tower of Witness will be embedded with hundreds of photos found in death camps. Just as striking is the re- creation of a concentration camp. It begins with a tactile shock: the museum's soft carpeting suddenly gives way to rough concrete. The smells and shadings of stone and steel fill the room. To continue, visitors must choose between passageways labeled ABLE BODIED or CHILDREN AND OTHERS. They have been told the second door meant death for boys and girls and the infirm. The moment is almost paralyzing...
...moments, thanks largely to Halle Berry's delicate, deeply felt performance in the title role. But the mini-series seems both dated and distressingly up to date. It bears less resemblance to Haley's earlier epics than to a 1990s woman-in-jeopardy TV film, or maybe a Danielle Steel soap opera. Queen is the classic innocent heroine who embarks on a picaresque journey in which evil and injustice lurk around every corner...
...Comics Superman editor Mike Carlin, hoping to boost newsstand sales, declares that "an escapee from a cosmic lunatic asylum" named Doomsday will murder the Man of Steel. The state of Pennsylvania touts itself as a place for "multiple personalities" to suggest it has much to offer tourists. A character on Roseanne argues that only "murderers, psychos and schizos" can beat a lie-detector test. On election eve, Ross Perot tells a cheering crowd, "We're all crazy again now! We got buses lined up outside to take you back to the insane asylum...
...earth may move, little rabbit, but now quake-zone residents can sleep safely, according to Hollywood special-effects designer Jon Ward. He has developed the "Los Angeles Earthquake Bed." Built of steel tubing and 16- gauge steel mesh, the 600-lb. bed, he says, can even withstand a collapsing roof. Peace of mind costs...
...late footnote to Pop art that relies on one obsessive device: the exaggeration of the aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny, possessing some...