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...Other artistic concerns in the Sydney show are more earthbound. Over the past five years, New York City-based Momoyo Torimitsu has sent a battery-operated salaryman robot, "Miyata Jiro," crawling the streets of London, Rio de Janeiro and Sydney. With the artist, dressed as a nurse, presiding, the whole robot tour is videotaped. For Torimitsu, the salaryman is the casualty of an economic war lost last decade, a shattered soul in need of nurturing...
...Earthbound home prices alone could put a further psychological damper on consumers who are already forsaking Macy?s for Wal-Mart; a slowdown in home sales tends to have a wider and more tangible effect. Housing is known as an "umbrella" sector, because a new home generally comes with other new stuff, from renovations and additions to washers, dryers and home entertainment. In other words, much of the seemingly quixotic summer strength in consumer spending grew out of the housing sector, and the housing sector may be about to cool...
...weak points rather than aiming for the stars with the movie?s inherent potential for intelligence and at least surface profundity. And the original "Planet of the Apes" was too, well, original to deserve Tim Burton turning it into something that, beneath the ape makeup and "vision," was rather earthbound...
...millions to stay at the universe's most expensive hotel, the International Space Station [SPACE, April 30], then the partners who own the place should take the money! Is it any more "distasteful" for NASA to charge a steep admission for visitors to gawk at the boringly earthbound Kennedy Space Center? NASA may be missing the boat on pocketing well-needed research money for something that will become commonplace in the future: paid space visits. DAN HERAUF Calgary...
...look at me, I'm a biaaaaaaathleeeete!" Just 10 seconds after finishing the workout my mysterious selective memory starts working its magic and all I can remember are the few brief moments when it went right. Everything else is instantly gone - the floudering, the struggle, the moments of being earthbound and ungraceful. At the end of the day, its like it never happened...