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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Screen Gems | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Screen Gems | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Shawna J. Strayhorn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Puppet Performance Art | 12/9/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murphy's Hard-Nosed Play Helps Top UVM | 12/8/2004 | See Source »

...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?...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, | Title: What Choice? | 12/8/2004 | See Source »

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