Word: styrofoam
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Piles of internship applications loom atop my printer. To my right, Russian memoirs and the Bible await reading, while to my left the Styrofoam remnants of a take-home physics lab sit gloomily. But with R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People blasting from my stereo, I somehow know the varied elements of my life at Harvard will work themselves out—a quick listen to “Try Not to Breathe” and “Nightswimming,” and everything will be okay...
...rapidly changing metropolitan landscape. Among the star pieces are a playhouse-size structure made of plastic Coca-Cola bottles and designed by renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban; a taxi deconstructed by Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul and fashioned into furniture; and a mobile made of pieces of trash?a Styrofoam takeout box, a plastic bag, netting that's used to protect fruit?whose dreamy shadows are projected onto a blue-tinged wall by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist...
...stars of the show are the professor puppets. Each professor is represented by his or her own puppet, which is made with a large, elaborate Styrofoam head meant to look as much as possible like the faculty member. In contrast, the puppet students are comprised of socks on tubes. “The students look generic and interchangeable, as the professors see them,” Gallicchio explains...
Ascendant pop star Tricia Chen is questioning her choice of a career as she stands in five centimeters of water surrounded by eight professional dancers and a Stonehenge-like grouping of Styrofoam pillars. It is 10 p.m., and she, along with 35 crew members, cameramen, dancers and friends, is in a cavernous Hong Kong studio shooting her second music video of the day. The session soured three hours earlier when her manager introduced her to a local journalist by calling her "fat. I keep telling her to lose weight." Now, with her self-esteem riding lower than her leather pants...
Grossman ended his presentation with Elvis Presley’s “Return to Sender,” and he had members of his family with giant styrofoam red pointing hands sway to the music, hands in the air, symbolically sending Romney back west...