Word: collectively
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...While the rest of his fellow Yale alums enjoyed high-profile jobs and piles of cash ("It was the nineties, dammit, and they were getting rich. Just like everybody else"), MacDonald did his best to shirk responsibility - including his tax-paying duties. After several IRS agents came calling to collect nearly $2,000 in back taxes, MacDonald began to ponder questions like, "In basic animal terms, what does it take for a human being to survive? Maybe I didn't need to swallow up half of the Rolling Rock and Ecstasy for sale in central Maryland. Maybe I didn...
...live tree doesn't guarantee a green Christmas. Instead of simply tossing your tree in the trash on Dec. 26, recycle it. Thousands of municipalities across the country offer Christmas-tree-recycling programs; you can look them up on earth911.com The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will even collect discarded trees and use them to create underwater forests in man-made lakes, sprucing up the habitats of fish and other aquatic critters...
...have almost complete control over an inmate's ability to communicate with the outside world. By checking their mail and parceling out telephone access - at scheduled times on easily and legally tapped landlines - communication for inmates was difficult and often expensive (their families had to pay for the hefty collect calls, usually the only kind allowed in jail). Today, however, as cell phones proliferate (with an estimated 3.5 billion and counting), they are reaching into every corner of the planet - including jail cells. Authorities in India recently confiscated more than 600 cell phones in a prison in the state...
...come, it seems, is to describe thematic parts that figure prominently in at least some of them. The first, potentially unifying, simultaneously elusive concept is that of the found object, extracted from its continuum, and repurposed as art. All of Conner’s work seems to collect beneath a font of discarded, quoted, recontextualized materials—educational films, pornography reels, propaganda, B-movies, television, newsreels, quoted songs. As a filmmaker, Conner seems to revel in an almost Dadaist attitude toward a new democratic vision of art, where all materials—no matter how inane or lewd...
Good may not be a strong enough adjective, since both teams relied heavily on their rookie keepers, and Hoyle’s superior performance helped the Crimson collect its third victory at home this season...