Word: dying
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...real acts of cruelty and horror into the art gallery—Shvarts’ miscarriage extravaganza is just one example. In Nicaragua, Costa Rican artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas found himself a stray dog, tied it up in the corner without food or water, and let visitors watch it die (though there remains speculation over whether the dog was removed before it actually expired...
...sought to tear open the subconscious, politicizing the personal realm of Oedipal complexes and bourgeois sexuality. And not all controversial modern ideas are petty and narcissistic. German artist Gregor Schnedier was recently pilloried for trying to bring real death into an art gallery; he has constructed a room for dying and has offered it to anyone who wants to die in a “peaceful” atmosphere. He claims he is interested in changing the public perception of death. “I find the public portrayal of death on TV and on the Internet violent and cruel...
...Melvin S. Davis: There are intense amounts of stress in short bursts. Studies can link the fact that we - myself being one of them - die much younger than our counterparts. And that comes back to stress and the impact it has on the body. My daily routine is dealing with aircrafts that have anywhere between two and four hundred people on board, and that are traveling at about 600 miles an hour. They all have an objective - to get the airplane on the ground as quickly as possible. And I have to be the traffic cop. In the high-density...
...Achilles' heels is a very antiquated communications system. We use 1950s technology to communicate in a 2010 environment. The frustrating thing is, there are incredible technologies available for communicating - via data-link or digital voice radio systems - and I've seen people die because we haven't implemented those technologies...
...glorification of violence. “Bonnie and Clyde” was not the first film to depict violence, but it was among the first film to celebrate it. The film’s final scene, in which the famous pair of Depression-era bank robbers die in a hail of bullets, is balletically graceful but horrifyingly brutal. According to Benton, it wasn’t until Newsweek’s Joe Morgenstern retracted his original review, which had called the film “a squalid shoot-’em-up,” that...