Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...swish, a swoosh, the snick-snack-snick of dueling blades--the nice thing about swordplay is that it doesn't make a lot of noise. When cold steel is their weapon of choice, men can actually exchange snappy dialogue while engaging in mortal combat. Better still, when heroism and villainy go at it mano a mano, a certain clearly identifiable humanity as well as a certain cinematic grace and fluidity is imparted to their conflicts...
...production is the brainchild of New York City theatrical designers Ken Billington and Kenneth Foy. Its centerpiece is a 50,000-lb. steel-and-Plexiglas modular stage that resembles those used by touring rock bands. The main playing area is flanked by twin lighting towers and live-action video screens, and three additional upstage screens are used for scenic projections. The entire package can be loaded into six tractor trailers, and a state-of-the-art sound system facilitates performances in large outdoor amphitheaters...
...this unruly work. The audience sits, theater-in-the-round style, on opposing sides of a long stage. At one end is a two-level block of cells; at the other, the warden's office, where every prop--desk, telephone, picture frames, even the American flag--is a grim steel gray. He doesn't soften the melodramatic excesses, yet he emphasizes the metaphorical overtones. There are references to Mussolini and Hitler ("that monkey with the trick mustache"); a Jewish convict laments, "I come of a people that are used to suffer"; and the harrowing scenes in the prison's steamy...
Evidence that neutrinos have mass has been reported before, but the measurements were so marginal that they left more room for doubt than confidence. Not this time. The Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a stainless-steel chamber filled with 12.5 million gal. of water, lined with sensitive light detectors and located deep underground in an old zinc mine near the city of Takayama, is among the most sensitive instruments of its kind in the world. The physicists who use it are widely recognized as extremely careful experimenters. And, says University of Hawaii physicist John Learned, there wasn't much doubt about...
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, 1985 Architect: Norman Foster All the workings of a high rise--from escalator machinery to cross braces--are displayed in Hong Kong's forceful steel-and-glass tower...