Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...countries participating and more than 100 artists on view through Nov. 7, there is, as ever, notable work amid a great deal of minor junk. At the opening, Hamilton's minimalist installation--four rooms that appear empty but for a shower of madly pink dust collecting on their sun-drenched floors--drew crowds and the chatter of outrage, deflation and praise...
...former gold-mining center, many visitors begin their stay instead in the wealthy new Rosebank-Sandton area to the north, which offers luxury hotels, office blocks and shopping malls. From there they travel to the eastern game parks of Mpumalanga (formerly the eastern Transvaal), the casino resort of Sun City or the Indian Ocean beaches of Durban, which is host to the country's largest convention center...
Without a doubt, the Parisians know and practice the art of style and fine living--and they have done so from the days of Louis XIV, the Sun King who ruled from his sumptuously decorated new palace at Versailles...
...Some say the world will end in fire, a view that seemed to gain traction during the past few days as upper-90-degree heat turned the nation into one giant Easy-Bake oven and everyone ran for cover from the sweltering sky. The remedies? Stay out of the sun, for goodness' sake, drink plenty of water -- and pray for rain...
There are plenty of such painful and embarrassing passages to be found here, along with some scattered bursts of the magic that Hemingway could consistently command earlier in his career: "White flowers had blossomed in the night so that with the first daylight before the sun had risen all the meadows looked as though a full moon was shining on new snow through a mist...