Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bulk of the show is video, photography, installations, a few sculptures and words on the wall. It contains enough useless, boring mock documentation to fill a small library. There are only eight painters out of 81 artists (Holliday brings the count to 82). But that's because it's more or less given that painting is a form of white male domination, implying "mastery." Indeed, the catalog presents quite a riff on this subject when it reflects on what might strike the unprepared visitor as the wretched pictorial ineptitude of such artists as Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley...
...delivery system became possible when Harvard opened a mailroom for first-years in the Science Center last fall. Now that all students get their mail at one of Harvard's mailrooms, Mail Services can make bulk deliveries...
...bulk of the play is weighty conversation, the characters are often left with nothing noteworthy to do. Again, this could be the intention, even the central focus of the Dream of the Red Spider, but the critical flatness and distance that can lift a farce above its banal and stereotypical underpinnings never surface. The author's despair and alienation are evident, but we are never given any reason for his whiny melancholia. It is a shame that the truly complex and harrowing aspects of life under a dictatorship are not examined in depth, for instance as in Ariel Dorfman...
...world is dark, lonely, and savage. God is "a cold shadow," as we are informed by the surly protagonist, who moans he "could have forgiven Him for everything but not existing." Painfully maudlin commentary unfortunately comprises the bulk of this ill-fated production of Ronald Ribman's Dream of the Red Spider. If only it had been written with a sense of humor or perspective, maybe this play would have been tolerable. But the overblown dialogue, sparse plot, and half-hearted acting make this performance dull, dull, dull...
...Exxon and other behemoths oppose the idea: most get the bulk of their oil from foreign wells. Exxon chairman Lawrence Rawl flatly declares that the fee "wouldn't work" and "would not be in the interest of the economy, the consumer or American industry." Among other drawbacks, critics argue, the fee could violate terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (by taxing imports from Mexico). "The import fee distorts the market and would be a subsidy for domestic producers," says Ed Rothschild, energy policy director for Citizen Action, the largest U.S. consumer lobby. "Most important, you will never...