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...know someone, though, who plans to poison the entire ice cream bucket hoping that her target will eat from it," he said...
Koons' work is a late footnote to Pop art that relies on one obsessive device: the exaggeration of the aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny...
...Game five against the Pistons '87: This one is an obvious pick. The Celtics were facing a return to Detroit down three games to two. With five seconds left, Bird stole an inbounds pass from Isiah Thomas and hit a streaking Dennis Johnson for he game-winning bucket. I couldn't dream up a better scenario. Isiah Thomas was the goat, Larry the hero. I get goose bumps just thinking of the play...
Last weekend, the Crimson tipped off its Ivy League season with inspired victories over Princeton and Pennsylvania. In Saturday's contest alone, 12 Harvard players contributed to a 92-69 win over the Quakers, and 10 Harvard players hit at least one bucket for the Crimson. This weekend, this same dirty dozen will be primed to face rival Dartmouth...
Another plastic bucket under the table is for the removed organs. All parts are kept and eventually buried with the body at the Medical School's burial ground in Tewksbury, or else returned to the donor's family...