Word: wiring
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...overnight by Chechen separatists. The soldiers--young conscripts fresh from the provinces and professionals here for the money--are tense, but they barely glance at most Chechens passing by. And the Chechens ignore them. The Russians don't find any mines this morning, and at a concrete-and-barbed-wire checkpoint, their comrades inspecting cars and buses don't catch any rebels. They occasionally rough up the drivers and often demand bribes, but the guerrillas know very well how this game is played. "Stick some money out the window, and they don't check anything," says a self-described mujahid...
...same with Bontecou, who produced some of the gravest, most tough-minded and even belligerent art of the 1960s. Three-dimensional wall pieces, they were constructed by attaching strips of rough canvas to welded metal frameworks, using bristling threads of thin wire. Always featuring one or more mute, sinister holes, the wall pieces conflated all kinds of mysteries and anxieties--about the human body, the primal instincts, the state of the world, the universe itself--into enigmas that shoot forward like field cannons. You don't just stand in front of something like Untitled from 1966. You bob and weave...
...everything is so good on the ground, why is the civilian administration hunkered down behind barbed wire and sandbags?” she said...
...outside of the gymnasium the pundits took to the air and wire...
Last year’s contest was close until the end, with UConn sophomore midfielder Becky Helwig scoring two goals, including the game-winner, to knot a 3-2 victory. Today’s game will most likely come down to the wire and only time will tell which team can come out on top in this battle...