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...WASN'T NEARLY ENOUGH TO MAKE CROPS GROW or give anyone a Saint-Tropez tan, but for the first time ever, there was sunlight in the middle of the night. This seemingly divine miracle was actually the product of a thin, 65-ft. plastic mirror mounted on the unmanned Russian spacecraft Progress, which, from its 225-mile-high perch, reflected light on a sleeping Europe. The umbrella-like mirror, called Banner, did not quite turn night into day, but it did project a weak 2 1/2-mile-wide beam that danced across the Continent for six minutes. A French observer described...
...start of his career, about 14 years ago, the world was not ready for Koons. He made his first works, inflatable plastic flowers bought in a dime store and set in front of mirrors, without many people noticing. A second group of objects, vacuum cleaners displayed in highly lighted Plexiglas cases, failed at first to excite the indifferent collectors. How could this be? "I've always loved sales," Koons remarks in the catalog, "and to me, being a salesman is being very generous to the public because you're meeting the needs of the people...
...form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny, possessing some of the virtues of Claes Oldenburg's work 20 years before...
...merchandise beneath wet ceiling panels was immediately covered with plastic, and key goods were transferred to the third floor men's sportswear area, which was already closed for renovation. The only damaged items were stationery and reading cards, Powell said...
...really can't get another one until Iknow what happened to this chicken," he said. "Ihave a plastic duck, but it just doesn't add up tothe companionship of a chicken...