Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gets closer, what looks like a sea of stars metamorphosizes into a myriad of glass bubbles, stretching from the floor to the ceiling and spanning a length of about 20 feet. According to one of Reynolds' assistants, the approximately ten thousand inch-wide bubbles may look lethal to touch, but they break more like cellophane than like glass--no dangerous shards, only a delicate cracking and crumbling...
...investigating only "illegal activities" that took place during the 1996 race. The Republican turnaround was spurred by the growing re alization that, while the White House fundraising scandal certainly looks like a mess, it is not clear whether laws were broken. If not, Thompson's committee would not touch the White House. According to Janet Reno's interpretation of the law, finance restrictions don't apply to the hundreds of millions of dollars in unregulated, soft money. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said there were arguments that under that interpretation, "some of these coffees, some of these sleepovers...
...creator wore chinos. Wilmut may not look the part, but he plays it. He took a cell nucleus from a six-year-old ewe, fashioned from it a perfect twin--adding the nice Frankenstein touch of passing an electric charge through the composite cell to get it growing--and called it Dolly...
...Hoeg's best-selling novel, Smilla Jaspersen has given her professional life over to the frozen music of mathematics, her private life over to bone-chilling isolation. The set of Smilla's face, the carriage of her body, as Julia Ormond plays her, says, "Don't ask, don't touch." She relents--angry at the show of weakness--for just one person. That is a lonely little boy named Isaiah, who lives in her apartment building...
...another witty piece, "Blind Mirror" (1970), Meireles muddles the relationship between vision and touch. The work is a white hospital mirror covered with thick, sticky caulking. In theory, a blind person could make an impression of his face in the mirror, and then "look" at himself through touch. On first viewing the work this explanation seems undermined by a blind person's simple ability to touch his own face. Why worry about getting your eyebrows and facial hair stuck in an uncomfortable mirror? But then at the bottom of the frame we notice a key to the piece, its title...