Word: blobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urban creature; the countryside frightens me," says Kyoto-born Noboru Tsubaki, whose Fresh Gasoline, 1989, a 9-ft.-high bulbous yellow pod, is the most startling work in the show. The creepy beauty and rich surface texture of Tsubaki's monstrous blob, with tentacle-like branches sprouting from its top, recall a fascination with the grotesque that characterized some Japanese avant-garde art of the 1950s and early '60s. Its inspiration: Japan's bombed-out landscape after World War II. Strains of this extreme aesthetic are still visible today in the ghoulish makeup and gestures of butoh dancers. Similarly, Shoko...
Former Secretary Bennett, who left the department in September, used his post as a "bully pulpit" to rail against teachers, unions and university administrators -- a group he referred to as "the blob" -- for standing in the way of reform. This did not endear him to educators, and his relations with Congress were similarly frosty. Cavazos, on the other hand, has made an effort to build bridges during his two months in office. "The way I operate is to try to bring people together," he says...
...balloon--bearing the letters "MIT" inflated, rose and exploded in a puff of smoke. "The Blob," as it was called then, was one of many pranks pulled off that day by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...greatest irony of all is that the higher education community brought the pressure on itself. For the NEA and the "blob" of interest groups representing higher education which had pushed so hard for a Cabinet-level position in the late 1970s were the ones who made Bennett possible. And instead of getting the acquiescent, cooperative type of leader they expected in the post, education leaders found themselves dealing with a highly independent secretary with an agenda remote from their...
...SPACE ALIENS -- that reflect the best work of twisted minds. Ex-Fleet Streeter Sheila O'Donovan, known to Examiner readers as Lovelorn Columnist Sheela Wood, praises what she considers America's restrained tabloid sensibility. She quit a Hong Kong tabloid in protest after the editors put a large blob on the front page with the headline 20 CARS CRUSH CRAWLING CRIPPLE...