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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...