Word: carpetting
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...slight of hand to grab the listener and keep him interested. In "Lucky One," the lead single, Penn takes a tongue-in-cheek look at modern culture, singing that "I must be the lucky one/The luckiest in Luckydom/Who reached the moon/But wound up numb." These lyrics swim in a carpet of strong drums, guitars and a piano, creating an infectious song that will have you humming for days...
...background, while the image of a waterfall cascades below. The oversize canvas has been set on the floor, leaning casually against the wall, so that at its lower edge the waterfall is cut off mid-drop. Lemieux wittily extends into the museum with a rectangle of blue plush carpet that begins on the ground where the canvas leaves off, its velvety nap now pulled in various directions and covered with the incidental spoor of footprints. The piece is a good-humored transgression of the viewer's space, and a clever juxtaposition of mass-produced objects...
...They are taking carpet samples, doing air tests and obviously they'll test a sample of the substance too," Wrinn said...
...turn the world on with her smile. She can take a nothing day, yada yada yada. But when it comes to sprinting down a sidewalk, hurdling a rolled-up carpet carried by two workmen and flopping onto the pavement, Mary Tyler Moore would have been better off leaving the job to professionals. A stuntwoman was supposed to handle the scene, in which Moore's Mary Richards--now a 60-year-old widow--chases in high heels after a stray dog, but Moore decided to try the pratfall herself. "I became airborne and did a three-point landing," Moore says...
...himself unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships--"pictures about the future of life and the struggle we've been through"--wrought from roots, animal carcasses, discarded wire, rope, tin, wood, carpet, plastic and house paint. Despite his compulsion to create, Dial had always been shy about his art. That changed in 1987, when collector Bill Arnett discovered Dial's work and started buying it up. Shows and commissions followed. Now Dial's art sells for tens of thousands of dollars...