Word: steeled
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...stark Prostitute, Nagoya conjures up the seedier underbelly of the mid-century boom years. Later images - like the strange, wriggling creatures of Ruinous Garden, or the rusting steel of the series Scrapped Boat, Nagasaki - are more abstract and puzzling, as if mirroring the confusion and disillusionment that took hold when the boom turned to bust. Poised between the horrors of its past and the possibilities of its future, modern Japan has been a society in constant flux: there can be few more acute observers of this process than Shomei Tomatsu...
Another new addition is a 400-foot burlap ceiling, hiding the normal cobweb of lightbulbs and steel catwalks that gives “the Ex” its “experimental” feel. The ceiling, which took approximately ten hours to make and install, gives the stage the rustic feel of rural Spain...
...feudal power into a technocratic and imperial state. In Germany, Bismarck fused 25 kingdoms and duchies into the Second Reich. In the U.S., the Civil War ended with the Union restored. Step two was rampant economic growth, with all three overtaking the established powers in the production of iron, steel and energy?those industries that would soon yield guns, bombs and ships. Step three: expansion and war. The Japanese took on Russia, China and, in 1941, the United States. The Germans made two bids for hegemony in World Wars I and II. Though a democracy, the U.S. itself could...
...fynbos (Afrikaans for fine bush) and towering hard pear and Outeniqua yellow wood trees. It's also the perfect setting for those who like their outdoor experiences spiked with adrenaline: harnessed and helmeted nature lovers can whiz through the Tsitsikamma's treetops by strapping themselves onto a web of steel cables threaded through the forest canopy. Biologists studying the flora and fauna in the Costa Rican cloud- and rain-forest canopies invented the system in the 1980s. It's an adventure that is eco-friendly?not one nail or bolt is drilled into a tree, as the whole system...
...There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. 'WHY ARE YOU HERE?' HE SHOUTED AT THE SILENT STEEL HULK. 'YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT CREATE MISERY. My city is in chaos because of you.' The brief encounter between the man and the tank captured an epochal event in the lives of 1.1 billion Chinese: the state clanking with menace, swiveling right and left with uncertainty, is halted...