Word: boomerang
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...first line of Kita Aquos--a sleek, metallic-silver flat screen with two soft, round bulges at the bottom for speakers, set on a boomerang-footed pedestal--won a shelfful of design awards and a place in European museums like the Pompidou...
That is because of the estrangement between the U.S. and a rising generation of Pakistani officers. For about 10 years, the U.S. Congress barred contacts between American and Pakistani military officials as part of sanctions on Islamabad for pursuing nuclear weapons in the first place. In an ironic boomerang, it is now those officers, ascending to ever more senior ranks, who soon could be overseeing various elements of the Pakistani military, including the security of the several dozen atomic weapons Pakistan is believed to have in its arsenal. Their provincialism, U.S. officials fear, could make them sympathetic...
...Calling kids who come home "boomerangs" is mean-spirited. A boomerang is a weapon designed to be thrown out into the world, and if it doesn't hit any target, it comes back to its owner. Is this the right metaphor for our young people? We've actually designed them to either go out and destroy things or return to us in failure...
Lewis Morley calls it "one of those boomerang photographs," as it's a picture that keeps bouncing back. And certainly Morley's silver-gelatin image of Swinging London call girl Christine Keeler?her notorious nudity concealed by shadow and a strategically placed chair?is a photographic icon that has cut through the vicissitudes of fashion. But the rest of Morley's 50-year career hasn't been so unapologetic, and it seems every few years the Hong Kong-born, English-trained and (for the past 35 years) Australian-based photographer is discovered anew. There have been retrospectives in London...
...front yard looking up at telegraph poles and lines? cutting through the clouds." Made four years before his death, his final photo series cloud (2000) recaptures that view, though what float across the sky are poetic symbols of Aboriginal dispossession: European farm animals and vestiges of Christianity; even the boomerang returns to him as a weapon of racial stereotyping, beautiful but deadly. Riley was a child of the '80s urban-based Aboriginal movement, when art school-educated indigenous Australians like Tracey Moffatt and Gordon Bennett began using the tricks of Postmodernism to critique Australia's colonial past...