Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Salle's is formula art of the most obvious kind. Its peculiar smugness comes from the belief that appropriation is the best, even the only way for art to keep its power in a media-soaked environment. "By embracing the intensity of empty value at the core of mass-media representation," claims Lisa Phillips in her catalog essay, "only then can the perennial challenge be met of finding and constructing significant meaning in the midst of declining values for images and words." This is modish nonsense. What becomes more obvious with each passing year of postmodernism is that...
...professor in the Fine Arts Department has gathered portrait, ranging from death masks to oils, for a show opening tonight at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum that will be used to teach his core course this spring...
...hard-core bodybuilding addicts head for the free weight room, which also serves as a refuge for out-of-season varsity athletes. Top 40 music blares from a box as approximately 20 men execute their daily ritual of pumping iron...
...away from the hard-core jocks, Wu says, "You just have to concentrate on what you're doing for yourself. Try not to keep it an ego thing." He says he thinks that weightlifting fosters individualism, but admits, "A lot of it has to do with looks--it's pure vanity, that's my motivation. It's a matter of feeling good and looking good...
Mather House boasts one of the most extensive supplementary rooms on campus, according to student director Peter Buonfiglio '87. A core group of 30 regulars frequents the Mather gym, which boasts, in Buonfiglio's words, "A very social atmosphere where it's easy to spend half your time talking and hanging out with friends...