Word: eminence
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...dismiss Kinkade as a purely commercial phenomenon, Lee thinks that because of his success, Kinkade deserves to be taken seriously. "I wouldn't have said that what he's doing, simply because he's clamoring for the lowest common denominator of taste, is any worse than what Tracey Emin does when she exhibits her bed," he says. "Both are awful...
...Armenian compatriots are for the most part prosperous; they go to the best clubs and have their island summer houses ... You'd expect them to take the Turkish side against Europe. So why have they remained silent?" wrote Emin Colasan, right-wing columnist in the mass-circulating "Hürriyet" newspaper, whose logo includes the words "Turkey for the Turks...
Throughout the show, there's an obsession with the body, leering humor about sex and yammering about death. Tracey Emin's canvas tent called Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1995) is done inside with crudely laid-out names and notes about old paramours. It camps out a short distance from Mona Hatoum's more elegant but hardly deep creation (despite its title, Deep Throat): a dining table with proper tablecloth and silver, and a plate whose bottom is a video screen showing the travels of an invasive camera down a human gullet...
There are many destructive cults operating in and near Boston at this time, and some of them have targeted the college/graduate school age group. TM is one; others include Scientology, Unification Church ("Moonies"), Emin, and the itinerant group locally known as the New England Meditation Society. All of these groups practice some form of mind control, primarily through trance induction. TM is a prime example...
Princeton's Emin Downey won, knocking more than 16 seconds off the old course record. Another Tiger placed second. But Harvard's Roy Shaw, Ketih Colburn, and John Heyburn took the next three places...