Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irate neighbors last night predicted that the proposed project, which involves planting grass and trees in the currently paved space in front of the inn, would destroy their residential tranquility by attracting loud street performers and late-night dwellers...
...major artist, but she didn't deserve the half-century of near oblivion that the new show brings to an end. This was partly her own doing: for all her love of camp flamboyance, Stettheimer wanted to arrange the disappearance of her own work and ordered her executors to destroy the contents of her studio. Fortunately, they disobeyed. Her friend Marcel Duchamp arranged an exhibition for her at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946, two years after her death, but it had no impact. Nothing could have been less in synch with the industrial-strength seriousness of postwar American...
With or without creativity, Jamison cautions, there is nothing glamorous about manic depression: "It's a horrible disease." In her manic phases, her restless energy helped destroy her first marriage and sent her on financially ruinous shopping sprees. Then, in her blackest despair, she tried to kill herself...
...from technology. Suburbs are largely products of the automobile. (In the forthcoming book The Lost City, Alan Ehrenhalt notes the irony of Henry Ford, in his 60s, building a replica of his hometown--gravel roads, gas lamps--to recapture the "saner and sweeter idea of life" he had helped destroy.) And in a thousand little ways--from the telephone to the refrigerator to ready-made microwavable meals-technology has eroded the bonds of neighborly interdependence. Among the Aranda Aborigines of Australia, the anthropologist George Peter Murdock noted early this century, it was common for a woman to breast-feed...
...gone from backyard to back lot in one jump, but he hasn't lost his pizazz as director and editor. The picture is great kinetic fun--an explosion of pop talent. As El Mariachi says, "It's easier to pull the trigger than to play a guitar--easier to destroy than to create." Rodriguez does both. Scaling the studio wall with this vigorous remake, he proves he can be both an artist and a hired gun. His future will be fun to watch...