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...Indonesia-born Fiona Tan's Rain, two blue plastic buckets never quite get filled by a monsoon. It's a symbol of futility, like emptying the sea with a cup, yet a soothing, contemplative one. Equally calm but with a sinister undertone is Albanian Anri Sala's Blindfold. Blank billboards on Vlorë and Tirana roofs reflect the rising sun into the viewer's eyes, people hurry by on the street, and after a long stillness, a pallid hand emerges from a balcony, hangs out a towel, and quickly withdraws. The works are isolated in dimmed rooms or scattered around...
...Indonesia-born Fiona Tan's Rain, two blue plastic buckets never quite get filled by a monsoon. It's a symbol of futility, like emptying the sea with a cup, yet a soothing, contemplative one. Equally calm but with a sinister undertone is Albanian Anri Sala's Blindfold. Blank billboards on Vlor? and Tirana roofs reflect the rising sun into the viewer's eyes, people hurry by on the street, and after a long stillness, a pallid hand emerges from a balcony, hangs out a towel, and quickly withdraws...
Think of your typical Italian opera. Now substitute a trance beat for the aria, a blank screen for the Venetian cityscape, a hand-crafted marionette for the buxom donna and art for her paramour...
...junior’s only chance—midway through the second period, he blitzed Vermont’s net for a point-blank chance, and it was Murphy’s physical play in the third period that headlined, in large part, a renewed effort from the same Crimson squad that has displayed a somewhat disturbing tendency to squander leads late in the game...
...polls is as simple as spoiling one’s ballot (by voting for every candidate for every position, or by drawing pretty pictures as opposed to casting a vote), the electronic system refuses to accept any form that has not been completed properly. Any attempt to submit a blank ballot is met by an insensitive JavaScript dialog box, which ungraciously informs the would-be abstainer that his effort to refrain from voting is not well-taken. With no way of simultaneously casting a ballot and abstaining from a decision, voters who cannot make a decision on next year?...