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...well. Another piece, “Cosmic Thing,” created in 2002, is made up of a 1989 Volkswagen Beetle dismantled down to its individual parts and hung by metal wire from the ceiling. The pieces are organized to form a 3-D model of the car that looks as if it has leapt off the page of a mechanic’s instruction manual. Every detail is its own entity; the horn hangs in space separated by a few inches from the floating steering wheel, and even the wipers are similarly detached from the windscreen. Despite this...
...learn nothing. This cycle of promise and disappointment, however, is broken when the sugarcoated elements collide with the newfound thematic darkness. Simple, major key guitar chords create upbeat melodies—but when paired with the chill of lyrics like “uncross my arms to disarm the car bomb,” the song offers a strange fusion. More fascinating still is when the dark, lo-fi “Shining”—shaded by a slow, monotonous melody and the thick bramble of guitar—meets the sweet introductory swell...
...protesters redirected what turned out to be a winding, three-hour trek, they pushed more Dumpsters into the street, or downhill toward law enforcement, and smashed the windows of a Boston Market and Mini car dealership, along with 17 banks and other businesses, by police count. The cops countered with repeated use of a projected, high-pitched noise that had many marchers plugging their ears - reportedly the first use of such a device in the U.S. In one of the few times police gave chase rather than standing their ground, they were pelted with rocks and pieces of macadam, countering...
...city, our streets" - mixed oddly with the jingle of an ice-cream truck trying to make some money off the protest crowd, which was led by a banner reading "No Hope in Capitalism." Bicycle scouts reported police locations to the marchers, who had swarmed around an unmarked police car just a few blocks after their start...
...scoring by the Congressional Budget Office to ensure that everyone knew what it would cost. Nor has she said she will support the bill's individual mandate, which would require people who are not covered by their employers or by government programs to buy coverage for themselves, just as car owners in nearly every state must have auto insurance. Without such a requirement, the bill is likely to fall significantly short of ensuring universal coverage. But Snowe worries that Americans who are slightly too affluent to qualify for federal assistance will find themselves burdened with health-insurance bills they cannot...