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...hide and get kidnapped, while no-voltage Jason Patric attends to all the heavy heroics. In Batman & Robin the guest villains are Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. Thurman has sexy fun with her villainous eco-freak, but Arnold is encased in an icy truss of a costume that obscures his rippling charisma. Memo to the Batman team: next time you pay a star $25 million...
...that was both experimental and politically effective. To this day, one can't look at the Constructivist designs for agitprop events -- the red panels of Natan Altman's bold transformation of the huge Palace Square in Leningrad for the first birthday of the October Revolution, or the steel-truss tribune designed by Lissitzky to carry Lenin forward like a high diver over the heads of a crowd -- without a feeling of exhilaration: this, not the bureaucratic and murderous reality of institutional Marxism, is what it was meant to be like, that now closed chapter in Russian history...
...plan to install in Arizona -- merely a warm-up for some 8-m versions -- boasts a light-collecting surface that is nearly as wide as a house is tall, yet it averages only 2.8 cm thick. What prevents this marvel from fracturing under its own weight is a supporting truss composed of thousands of glass ribs that are cast as part of the mirror's underlying structure. Arrayed in a striking hexagonal pattern, the ribs form an airy honeycomb that confers on the mirror the structural strength of solid glass at one-fifth the weight. Because the hexagonal cells...
...righteous movie can match the immediacy of a cut like Nighttrain on their new album, Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black. Out only a month, Apocalypse has burned into the Top Ten and sold a million copies; it hit No. 4 on the Billboard chart, with Can't Truss It sitting high at No. 3 among the singles. The heat, in every sense, seems to be following the group on its current tour. Disembarking from the band bus for a recent date in Oakland, Chuck D looked at the flames in the near distance and observed, "This...
Though cameras were always pulled out for calamities -- the Johnstown flood, the San Francisco earthquake -- the subtler processes of the century left their mark on the glass plates too. The growth of industry, the very geometry of the industrial landscape were news. The diagonals of an iron truss or the plunging lines of a new bridge told of the spreading dominion of industry and technology in a way that words never could. Photography came along just in time to record the great expansion of empire by the colonial powers as they stretched toward the Pacific. When the U.S. moved westward...