We followed a trail past tufts of green grass and spiny shrubbery and the barbed-wire remnants of a Bedouin encampment.
He sees men clearing rusty coils of barbed wire, the remnants of a coastal defense system, off the beach, but not the broader changes caused by war: the bad food and worn clothes of postwar austerity, the dearth of military-aged men, the exhaustion and the paranoia.
"The Teflon-coated ones have the most intense colors," Kate says as she uncoils several inches of blazing vermilion wire, a remnant from a local aerospace firm.
Before the lights go down, the audience at Performance Space 122 is treated to Seth Reiser's wondrous set, a Luddite's paradise of reel-to-reel players, turntables, thick wires and other bulky remnants of predigital life.
They also will remove remnants of wiring tape and modify interior panels in Regular Cab trucks.
An eighth bedroom is in the attic suite, which includes a living room that, according to the listing agent, served as a workshop for John Browning (and includes remnants of a wiring system used to buzz his maids).
With sewage covering the streets and electric wires dangling in the air, remnants of the 15-year civil war are still visible.
Now I have metal in every molar and, along the inside of my bottom teeth, a wire cemented in place — the last remnant of three years of braces, a process that started with the removal of four teeth.
Crews often discover deteriorating wires, old wells and below-ground remnants from long-gone structures.
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — When two inspectors swung open the doors of a battered red shipping container here, they confronted a graveyard of Europe's electronic waste — old wires, electricity meters, circuit boards — mixed with remnants of cardboard and plastic.
Since the Wall came down, they have all competed with D.D.P., an agency built out of remnants of the old U.P.I. news wire and the former East German state-sponsored news service.
