Word: wiring
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...center of the teen-pop revolution, you enter an unmarked, soot-colored brownstone in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. In his office on the 11th floor, behind his big wooden desk with its neatly organized stacks of CDs, Jive president Barry Weiss is a crackling wire of energy, jumping up to fetch a DVD from a shelf, scribbling memos, barking orders in a brisk, rat-tat-tat fashion. The walls of the native Long Islander's office are decorated with the trophies of two decades of conquests--half a dozen gold and platinum albums...
...Before boarding Air Force One, Bush said, "Today we had a national tragedy." Two airplanes, he continued, crashed into the World Trade Center "in an apparent terrorist attack on our country." Air Force One was initially reported to be en route to Washington, but at 12:30 p.m. EST, wire services indicated the President had landed at an airforce base in Louisiana. At 4 p.m. EST, the President was on his way back to the White House. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had been in Peru on a state visit, cut his trip short, and prepared to return...
...Plastic bottles litter the lawns; the canals are dirty; guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and in places have fallen off. In the basement, the graves of the Emperor and his beloved are off limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells of bats and pigeon droppings. Enormous beehives hang from the arches; black smoke stains mark where other hives have been burned off. The river behind the tomb is sluggish with sewage...
...christened in the '60s, has sunk into kitsch--think of Victor Vasarely!--but there are a few artists whose work has not collapsed in this way, chiefly Bridget Riley and Soto. With Soto, the effects are very direct but used, at best, with extreme subtlety. A black wire traces a line against some other lines behind it and at an angle to it, and the crossings move and optically blur in a fascinating way that makes use of small, slow changes, tiny inflections. It's a kind of kinetic art, though one in which the viewer moves but the object...
...design its new addition, the Milwaukee Museum of Art picked one of Europe's most original architects, Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish-born engineer whose buildings and bridges are high-wire acts of structural and aesthetic daring. His centerpiece for the museum, in Milwaukee, Wis., is a tall sunscreen with wings that open and close. But tests on building material hit a snag, pushing back the screen's official May debut to Oct. 14. It's a thing of beauty, but will...