Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What such an art might look like, though, was not immediately apparent. With some foresight, it might have been glimpsed in Picasso's famous rusty tin Cubist Guitar of 1912 -- all planes and interstitial spaces. But it wasn't realized until 1928, when Picasso, who had spent much of that year making diagrammatic drawings for sculptures that would be executed in nothing but wire, sought out the help of Gonzalez, who taught him to weld iron. Picasso's energies, in turn, seem to have inspired in Gonzalez the daring to become an inventive sculptor in his own right. The Picasso...
...foot-tall tin trophy? No. It's hard to believe in this cynical age, but this was a game for the game's sake...
Somewhere between the heavenly promise of America and the hellish reality of Haiti lies a way station on the Cuban coast called Guantanamo Bay. There, at a U.S. naval base, more than 200 Haitians have languished in tin-roofed barracks for up to 17 months, surrounded by wire fences and plagued by banana rats. Last year the Bush Administration ruled that they had plausible claims for political asylum. But because most of them tested positive for the AIDS virus, they are barred from the U.S. Suspicious of their captors and even their doctors, many have staged a hunger strike...
...hunger, fear, gunfire and, most of all, uncertainty about the future. In the slums of Port-au-Prince, there were high hopes for "the democrat Clinton" with a small d. Deep in a warren of concrete hovels without running water or sanitation, a voodoo priest sat beneath the corrugated tin roof of his temple. The people of his neighborhood, he said, had supported Clinton despite reprisals from the army that rules the country. "A lot of people were beaten up here because we believed in Clinton, and the Haitian authorities wanted Bush re-elected," he said. "We couldn't talk...
...LIKE A TIN PAN ALLEY TROUPER, ROSS PEROT HAS A craving for the limelight and for Larry King Live. His latest gig casts him as head of a new watchdog group, designed to badger Bill Clinton and Congress about federal spending and the deficit. Before a crowded Dallas press conference, a pleased Perot unveiled new versions of the old props -- the fiscal charts, an 800 number and TV commercials -- that helped him capture 19% of the vote in November. Then he regaled reporters (or at least himself) with a scratchy rendition of Patsy Cline's smash hit Crazy...