Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though getting in no longer requires late nights on Wall Street or a degree in economics, it still takes something next to a miracle: Only one out of eight makes it into the garden...
...need to show on your application that you're a superstar, and it's tough to be a superstar on Wall Street...
...whether an applicant hits Wall Street and spends two years working 100-hour weeks, runs a company or takes a tour of duty in the Armed Forces, the near-universal consensus is that time-off is almost mandatory to apply successfully to B-School...
...shipped to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal and set up inside the Geffen Contemporary. The plates couldn't be craned in through its doors, and so, recalls the museum's director, Richard Koshalek, "we took the direct way. We just cut a big hole in the back wall and had the trucks drive straight in." Then, with the help of a compact but powerful lifting crane whose last major job had been to jack up the concrete slabs of Los Angeles' freeways after they pancaked in the 1994 earthquake, the curved metal slabs were fitted together: seven sculptures, each...
...cannot actually get lost in them. Yet they are not so easy to read. The change of curvature is continuous, and it destabilizes you. In some sculptures the difficulty of knowing what sort of space you are in almost amounts to queasiness; you misjudge your distance from the wall and bump into it; you have to look up through the open top to orient yourself again. The physical experience of the piece can't be predicted from its geometry. Those slabs of steel, leaning together and held in place solely by their own weight, play upon your body's sense...