Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each of the previous three home games, Big Red faithful had slipped their entries in the ballot box and now, as the car sat there in the middle of Ithaca's Barton Hall and the sponsors stood in a semicircle behind the master of ceremonies, the 5000-strong throng in the stands went crazy...
...know whether or not I would have passed up the Honda if I had won--yeah, I put my name in the box like everyone else--but my conscience breathed a sigh of relief when the slick PR man crooned, "Peter Grossman, of Ithaca. New York, come on down...
...Aquino camp was badly shaken on Tuesday when Javier, the campaign director of Antique province, was brutally and publicly murdered by men with alleged ties to a prominent leader of the Marcos forces in the National Assembly (see box). Late last week the bodies of ten more people, all said to be opposition supporters, were reportedly discovered in northerly Quirino province. At least 156 people have been killed in election-related violence since the presidential campaign began...
When a prominent New York City politician tried to kill himself just before his name came up in a bribery scandal, the Times published a helpful little box of unanswered questions, such as where had he spent the previous seven hours, and with whom. Sometimes, in a column under the heading "Questions Without Answers," the Times offers a later updating on "questions that defy news reporting, at least for a while." What happened to those five Monets and two Renoirs stolen from a Paris museum last October? Was Vitaly Yurchenko an authentic defector who changed his mind, or a double...
...resulting images are like windows into a distinctly shaped but largely unrecognizable world. They have more than a little in common with surrealism; one thinks of the Pandora's box of little involuntary creatures, buzzing and defecating and copulating, that Joan Miro opened in the 1920s. And like those dreambugs, Winters' fungi and spores have a distinctly human air. In their aggregation, they refer to social structures: hives, crowds, nests, colonies. They suggest hierarchies and sometimes conflict. But all this is decidedly muffled, submerged so far in the paint that it hardly works as allegory. Winters does not want...