Word: elgin
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...Elgin marbles," acquired by Lord Elgin during a period of political turmoil in Greece, might have been destroyed had the British not preserved them. The British also argue that more people can see the friezes in London than would be able to in Athens...
From all the fuss, you would have thought it was a theft of the Elgin Marbles or the rape of the Sabine women. "Criminal mutilation," says Woody Allen. "Artistic desecration," says the Directors Guild of America. "Cultural vandalism," says the Western branch of the Writers Guild of America. Not since Ingrid Bergman was run out of town on a morals charge has Hollywood been & in such a pious fit. Directors, actors, critics, even the odd editorialist, have risen as one to denounce the depredations of -- colorization...
...pedigree was said to be by Elgin Baylor out of Connie Hawkins, and Erving is considered the inspiration for Dominique Wilkins and Michael Jordan. "But aren't comparisons always unfair?" he says. "I've borrowed from every player I've ever seen, from the little guard with the two-hand set shot to the big center with the slam dunk to the forward defending the passing lanes like a free safety. What separates a player, if anything does, is just the few things he adds that...
...manufacturer backs its product with an unusual one-year guarantee. American Antenna of Elgin, Ill., reimburses owners of its K40 receivers for speeding fines if the users are zapped by police radar...
Well, yes. It also happens that the world is full of formerly "site- specific" art, from the Elgin Marbles and the horses of San Marco to any number of detached frescoes and tombs that have not died from being moved. As the Great Structuralist in the Sky would put it, loss of context means enrichment by recontextualization, and site-specific is as site-specific does. What it does here is serve as a mere scrim for the question of Serra's rights as an artist who, much as his opponents may now resent it, can be argued to have...