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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...video "The Way Things Go," in the "Sausage Series" the artists remove human presence and distort scale, producing a world of crude cinematic maquettes overrun by cigarette-butt villagers and sausage-mobiles. In "The Carpet Shop" a group of cornichons inspect piles of thinly-sliced processed meat doubling as Persian carpets with fat-swirl designs and olive-chunk embroidery. Hardly just playing with their food, in these photographs Fischli and Weiss provide a wry social critique, probing the banality and vulgarity of a middle-class Swiss breakfast--an insult to American anti-cholesterol culture. Yet, at the same time their...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swiss Artists Fischli and Weiss Juggle Sarcasm, Sincerity at the ICA | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...rate, it's unclear how effective industrial-era antitrust law can be in an age when any enterprising teen can, in theory, invent a new word processor on his laptop and kick Word's butt. The Web is the ultimate free market, whose invisible hand works with irresistible force, even on what seem to be immovable objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL RENO BRAKE WINDOWS? | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...felt great...to let other women out there know that there are sisters at Ivy League universities who care about the same things that you care about. You may be a working-class mother in Bedford Stuyvesant, in Brooklyn, NY, and you may be working your butt off...but we care.... We're Harvard-Radcliffe women, but we care about the same things you care about because...we are all together in the same struggle...no matter what level...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Strong, Black, Female | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...only hospital for women when the purist authorities of the Taliban decided they did not want any pictures taken. Screaming and shouting at us, they grabbed our TV cameras, all our tapes and even our briefcases. Several armed Taliban enforcers slapped a cameraman, while another rammed his rifle butt at visiting aid workers. One raised his hand toward Emma Bonino, the European Union Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, there to investigate the Taliban's treatment of women, and would have struck her but for an aide's intervention. The next thing we knew, a truckload of armed men were escorting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYRANNY OF THE TALIBAN | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...competition. It looks to me like the student paper is kicking the city paper's butt," Luft said...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Newspapers Sign Petition Condemning Iowa Paper | 10/9/1997 | See Source »

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