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...some level, her art seems more dependent on the play of language than visual ingenuity. A number of her found objects make this particularly clear, such as Breath of a Librarian, a deflated black balloon found in the reading room of the British Library. Works like this might lead us to wonder whether collector, rather than sculptor, might be a better description for Parker...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blow Up: Hypnotist-Collector Cornelia Parker Comes to America | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

MEMORABLE MOMENT The tractor carrying Channing and Hirt stalls on the 35-yd.-line, while a prop hot-air balloon almost crushes costumed Southern Belles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Polka? | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...five-bedroom houses. Even so, I asked Primrose to scan the room for me and check out the new crop. "I think there's a lot of good-looking women," she said. She thought I might meet them at company picnics, which often feature the AOL hot-air balloon. This sounded romantic enough, until I heard about the AOL race car, which David Hasselhoff drove in a Baywatch episode. I don't think there's a woman on the planet who wouldn't be putty around that thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I've Been Acquired | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...fired from a Pacific atoll failed to hit a mock warhead deployed by a missile fired in California. Although the system managed to destroy a mock warhead last October, it was later reported to have been a lucky accident after the interceptor missile had locked on to a decoy balloon that drifted close to the target. "I call the Pentagon all the time and sometimes they can?t transfer my calls to the right place," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "So how are they going to manage to shoot down a missile with a missile? This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Missile Misses, but That Won't Stop Funding | 1/19/2000 | See Source »

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