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Merriman made art for this show, from, among other things, a bed, a stuffed fox bought on eBay, and dirt, though she normally just paints...
...skilled hand keeps all the parts moving behind the scenes, ensuring that even the most abrupt shift feels integral to the shape of the song. And often, the foundations of traditional song structure rest beneath all the whistles and bells. The hypnotic “With Dirt And Two Texts-Later Version With Love” alternates two sing-song synth melodies like chorus and verse. “Creating Cyclical Headaches” works like a bell curve: it begins with a simple, bubbly keyboard, layers on sound after sound with increasing thickness, and then whittles the song back...
...major corporation, was researching in 3M's labs ways to create a rubber material that aircraft fuel couldn't destroy. Her assistant accidentally knocked over a bottle of synthetic latex onto her new sneakers. Soap, alcohol and solvents couldn't remove the compound, but Sherman also noticed it resisted dirt. So she and a colleague improved its liquid repellency, and three years later 3M sold it on the market as a suede protectant. In 1973 Sherman obtained a patent for it to preserve carpets...
...Imagine that. He started buying Beazer at $8 a share and has held on while it soared to $69; Centex at $10, now $68; Meritage at $3, now $59; NVR at $60, now $759; Pulte at $5, now $37; Toll Bros. at $10, now $32. ?They?re still dirt cheap,? Muhlenkamp told TIME...
...trip to Ororicua, the shantytown in the mountains outside Tuxpan where his grandmother was born, highlights just how far Coria has come. His grandmother's people still live in sloping clapboard shacks with dirt floors. Coria's home in Tuxpan is a porticoed five-bedroom residence in the center of town, and he drives a late-model Nissan Pathfinder. In the front of his vast garden are orchids and lilies he brought from the Hamptons. In the back are groves of guava, orange and avocado. But Coria's pursuit of success has taken a heavy toll. Being just about...