Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city attuned to architectural splendors and niceties, the squat, graceless Chicago Sun-Times Building, resembling an aluminum-and-marble houseboat run aground, has long struck its beholders as an eyesore. Suddenly it has become the visual star of the Windy Cityscape. Deciding that the structure would be a good backdrop for his latest creation, titled Bess' Sunrise, Textile Artist Maya Romanoff adorned the building with 28 brightly colored canvas strips, each 6 ft. wide and 120 ft. long. Suspended from the seventh-floor terrace and hanging down to the edge of the Chicago River, the work offers a billowing spectacle...
Many Chicagoans have urged that the work be left up permanently instead of the planned two weeks. It has cheered passersby and even improved the morale of people inside the unloved building. Said Sun-Times Spokesman Mike Soll: "Dressing it up is a welcome relief...
...once welcoming and protective, that holds a bit of history, a lot of family and no sharp edges. Of all the U.S.'s Latino landscapes, perhaps the most haunting is in New Mexico, where Native American, Spanish and eastern-Anglo sensibilities have boiled together in the Southwest sun for the past four centuries. The so- called Santa Fe look, romanced into the mainstream by Ralph Lauren, has turned into the hottest design fad in years. "People naturally want to return to the earth," explains Rachel Elizondo, owner of Santa Fe's Storyteller gallery, a mecca for decorators. "A clay...
...gone awry -- perhaps irreversibly. Without the greenhouse effect, life on earth would be a nightmare of subzero temperatures. Instead, naturally produced CO2 and other gases, mainly from plant and animal life, behave in the atmosphere like the glass in a greenhouse: they let the visible warming rays of the sun in but inhibit the escape of infrared rays back into space...
...Japanese are still torn by conflicting emotions over their proper place in the sun. A new nationalism is bubbling up through the country that has little to do with old dreams of imperial conquest. Rather it is based on a pride in Japan's achievements and a desire for other nations to recognize its status. At the same time, the Japanese are sometimes seen by outsiders as lacking clear goals for their country or any abiding sense of how to put their wealth and power to use. "There must be some ideal that we have that would appeal to mankind...