Word: carpets
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...supporter of Ken Ticehurst (an early Liberal casualty), he was bewildered by the rejection of Howard's robust economy. "If you want a job in Australia, you can get one. How many countries can say that?" A pretty brunette, leaning over just enough to drip champagne on the carpet, added, "It's a really odd time to throw out a government...
...Jorge Pardo is designing a reinstallation of the museum's pre-Columbian collection, while Govan and senior curator of modern art Stephanie Barron invited artist Baldessari to install last year's Ren Magritte and Contemporary Art show. Baldessari came up with a ceiling image of intersecting freeways and a carpet of sky and clouds. "Usually artists can't be compensated at market level for their time," observes Barron, "but Michael got Lexus to underwrite the installation. Michael's passion for art is infectious...
...they can a short story. And that is the problem with the work: Johnson relies too much on images and respects plot too little. The plot is seemingly dormant throughout, nascent and budding but never fully developed. To attempt a summary is impossible. The book splays out like a carpet of smoke, following a plethora of characters through the war. It recounts each one’s experience, and there never is a feeling of completion, never any satisfaction to be gained from it. It is too diffuse. The reader enters into Vietnam, finds himself there, but without a story...
...This week's summit had all the ingredients of compelling agitprop: martial pageantry, a red-carpet welcome for Roh, flower-waving crowds, and even a cameo by the reclusive Dear Leader, who, despite looking unsteady and in poor health, nevertheless emerged to play host. But stagecraft doesn't equal statecraft. For now, the dream of a North Korean perestroika remains just that. Roh may have taken a symbolic step toward reunification - but the road ahead is long and far from smooth...
...wholehearted support to a bill Hunter has recently introduced to the House, the “Restoring Patriotism to America’s Campuses Act.” The bill would cut all funding from Columbia University in retaliation for its dastardly decision to to roll out the red carpet for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran and a known Islamo-fascist. In forgetting the primary duty of every American university—to propagate only discourse that is pleasing to all American citizens—Columbia grievously sinned, and must suffer the consequences...