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...Momento, for example, calls to mind a funky urban hipster who empties out his over-filled garage to host a dance party complete with pulsing music and flashing lights. In Chris Burden's Pizza City, a room filled with tables supporting a bizarre urban sprawl suggests an overzealous collector of model train sets and holiday porcelain villages from mail-order catalogs. Likewise, Bryan Crockett's gigantic balloon explosion could only have been made by a slightly obsessive character, perhaps an eccentric clown bored with his mastery of simple balloon wiener dogs and poodles...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: The Greatest Show on Earth | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

Sedaris reserves his highest, most poetic register of speech, the one in which wheelchairs are called "electric chariots," to downplay the danger he faced, on and off the road, from a larcenous, knife-wielding stud to a dildo collector...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...more. Undoubtedly, every student, alum, and Crimson enthusiast (I suppose the color could stay) would want to take home a piece of the new brand-name of elite academia. Added to this would be the stampede of the sentimentalists and investors wishing to get hold of vintage H-clad "collector's items" while they last--Everything Must...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: The Politics and Power of a Name | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

August Wilson's "Fences" provocatively delineates main events in the life of a black family in the 1950s. The success of the production stems primarily from the excellent lead, Shannon Bryant '99, who plays Troy Maxson, a garbage collector whose race foils his dreams of playing major league baseball. Fortunately, the supporting characters also hold their...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: Excellent 'Fences' Production Knows No Boundaries | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...built Blockbuster and trash collector Waste Management has acquired 36 dealers for about $550 million in stock. He's also opened seven AutoNation and three ValuStop used-car lots. Wall Streeters expect him to spend $5 billion in three years buying dealerships, consolidating yet another mom-and-pop industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZWATCH: Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

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