Word: doo
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...Vexed at his fellow Parisians' passive endurance of dog doo as an inevitable fact of pedestrian life, an artist who calls himself Cho is raising public awareness about the problem by drawing attention to some of its most egregiously deposited examples. During outings, Cho keeps watch for specimens left in high-traffic venues and transforms the offending piles into "protest messages" by adorning each one with a small flag bearing an ironic, eye-catching symbol. He then outlines the subject in chalk to resemble a homicide victim, and signs and dates the entire tableau-which he may also photograph...
...result is clear as sludge on Paris' notoriously befouled sidewalks, whose doo-slickened surfaces cause 650 hospitalizations a year and rank as Parisians' third-biggest gripe about their city. Tourists also marvel at the mess, a situation that in part shaped Cho's form of protest. "I wanted it to be an international message everyone would understand," says he. "I began using French flags to suggest we Parisians are so proud of our dog poop that we display it all over our sidewalks. I think visitors and residents alike get the irony of the message...
...relatively intact, I reached the point in mental development where the world becomes not a place of magic and miracles, but a rule governed game, like chess or checkers. This slow transformation of the way that children perceive the world comes from many environmental factors. In my case Scooby Doo, with its scion of rationality in Velma, demonstrated time and time again that no matter how scary the monster, no matter how improbable the events, there was always a "logical explanation," while Shaggy and Scooby's (Zoinks!) belief in the supernatural was always exposed as folly. Other myths of childhood...
...Like NRBQ and the Grateful Dead, whose encyclopedic catalogs provide the only fair comparison, Los Lobos have absorbed everything from rockabilly to Marvin Gaye (whose "What's Going On" ends the album), with field trips through psychedelia, doo-wop, blues, pop and just-plain-out-there studio experimentation. And that's not even counting their mastery of the traditional Mexican music they grew up with, the soundtrack of life in Chicano East L.A. With 86 songs, there's a lot to like here: the earliest forays into the studio with traditional material like "Guantanamera"; the rowdy guitar-driven rock...
...political parties (similar to the Republican party's near ownership of the Southern states). Kim addressed regional discrimination by appointing members from other parties (and thus, regions) to high-ranking positions on his cabinet. To further national reconciliation, Kim pardoned over one million political prisoners, including former President Chun Doo Whan, who had ordered the attempts on Kim's life...