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...North Carolina, the training ground of the '50s avant-garde, where he had befriended the composer John Cage. Cage's ideas about chance and randomness fascinated Rauschenberg, who began scavenging the streets of New York for junk to incorporate into works like Satellite, in which a stuffed pheasant presides atop a canvas patchworked with fabric and photo images and covered with washes of paint...
...research on what people have done in the past. I started to become interested in ascetics, the great monks, San Simeon. Reading "Siddhartha" as a kid got me interested in fasting. [Standing atop a pillar in New York City] came to me early on. I looked at a huge telephone pole and thought, standing on that would be pretty amazing. Trafalgar Square gave me the London idea. For [being trapped in]ice, I was flying back to New York and just started thinking about an icicle with a fly trapped inside it. Then I started thinking about a block...
...Green would have to drop all four games this weekend and see Brown take three of four from second-place Yale to relinquish its spot atop the Rolfe Division standings and its spot in the Ivy League Championship Series. But even if Harvard can’t spoil Dartmouth’s plans, it has some of its own: to prove its worth to the rest of the league after an unprecedented 1-22 start to its season...
...Obama, on the other hand, sits atop an Internet fund-raising machine unlike any either party has ever seen. He has been raising more than $1 million a day for several months now, with more than a third coming in small amounts from people who can give again. He also has some home-court advantages: up to 30% of Indiana's Democratic voters live in the Chicago media market. The heavily African-American city of East Chicago is actually in Indiana...
...disappeared’ when they wouldn’t keep their mouth shut about the proletariat.At any rate, current students seem to have forfeited Marx and Engels to an even greater degree than their instructors. When, in 1953, Crimson editors got hold of the Ibis that sits atop a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a humor magazine, the natural decision was to send it to the Soviet Union. Who knows what nemesis state would even have it today, or whether we’d have the cajones to send it to them? Kim Jong...