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BOSTON--With a massive Coke bottle looming in left field and an aging Roger Clemens dealt off the roster, yesterday's 85th opening day at Fenway Park had plenty of signs that baseball is moving into the commercialized 21 st century...
...Wall Street Journal and on episodes of 60 Minutes. For all of Lott's passion for tort reform, one of the nation's wealthiest tormentors of tobacco companies is his brother-in-law Dick Scruggs, beside whose pool the majority leader can often be found, sipping a Coke and working his cell phone, whenever the Senate is out and the weather is warm...
...column of Catholic hosts connects the bones and pennies, setting off a chain of associations including colonial exploitation, charity, death and even cannibalism. In his "Insertion" series, Meireles stamped slogans and questions like "Yankee go home" or "What is the place of the work of art?" on currency and Coke bottles which were than reinserted into circulation. Since they depend so heavily on their actual use, these works are unfortunately as difficult to experience in the museum as "Volatile" would be on paper. But we can still imagine the surprise of being handed a "Yankee go home bill" as change...
...seep into the floors, play with spatial perception in a way similar to the work of German artist Blinky Palermo. Mysteriously prescient, his stamped "Insertion" slogans even anticipate Jenny Holzer's "Truisms," which would begin to appear on envelopes and T-shirts nearly 10 years after Meireles' last Coke bottle was recycled. Finally, the ICA's excellent show welcomes Cildo Meireles to the front of the theater...
...shrunk further as companies have bought back bushels of their own shares. Corporate America repurchased nearly $170 billion of its equities last year. Coca-Cola, whose price rose 42% in 1996, helped the increase along by declaring its intention to swallow as many as 206 million shares of Coke, or 8.3% of the company's outstanding common stock...