Word: cladding
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...guest of honor arrives, groups of schoolgirls, including a unit clad in the black face masks of suicide-bomber trainees, perform dances dedicated to Saddam's "pulse of life." Then an interminable line of marchers files through, maybe 10,000 strong, singing "Happy year to you, President Saddam Hussein, who brought victory to us." As a group of fist-waving farmers tramps past, one of its members, Abdullah, offers, "We volunteered to come to show how much we love our President...
...scenes in which Lois works on an abstract painting of a woman in white, an imperfect black square named Max and a garden. The triangular symbolism in her painting works too hard to imitate her life. Similarly, a subplot involving Maximilian, the Austrian Emperor of Mexico, and his white-clad queen is completely extraneous. The little history lesson could hardly be more boring or less relevant...
...birth of his brainchild, which he generously likens to an updated version of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. Harmon wonders, “What would Rilke say in those years leading up to the twenty-first century, to an angry, cynical, ironic, black-clad, café-dwelling, cigarette-puffing, wannabe-artist poseur like me? I wanted to find...
...opportunity to mix and mingle. And there are the installations. Cappellini's is the most famous and usually the most fun, focusing as much on partying as on product. This year, to highlight a new "Swimming Pool" collection of Pucci fabrics on its furniture, Cappellini had bathing-suit-clad models lounging on the lounges. There are a slew of published guides to lead one through the fair, but they only add to the confusion. How many years would it take to become a master of Milan? Says Gareth Williams, a curator at London's Victoria and Albert Museum: "Several...
...sweet plucking of the guitar during these songs was honest and vulnerable and LP’s voice became tremulous, earnest and full of a good kind of pain. The power of LP’s sound rescues the songs from complete mushiness. LP is unmanufactured, earthy and leather-clad, but still extremely marketable. Her lyrics express the kind of emotional ripeness that says this girl has lived through a thing or two. But we’ll never know for certain until LP stops hiding behind her shock of hair...