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...machine-gun bullet from killing those inside. But they are built to halt armor-piercing 7.62-mm rounds--the kind of bullets fired from AK-47s, an insurgent favorite. The roof is engineered to thwart the blast of a 155-mm artillery shell exploding overhead, and the floor is reinforced to protect passengers from a bomb or a 12-lb. mine buried in the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are Our Troops? | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...master at creating extraordinarily rich and complex objects, thick concatenations of meaning. Prina has carefully planned out even the smallest details of both his works themselves and the way they are displayed, from the texture or color of his materials to the way the objects are attached to the floor or wall, and all of these details contribute to the layering of meaning in the end product. Unfortunately, I don’t have space here to for me to provide an extended discussion of specific examples, but suffice it to say that after walking through the gallery with Prina...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Night and a Day with Stephen Prina | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...surface of the congealed paint, the opacity and admitted ugliness of many of his color choices, and the debris (ranging from sand to nails and cigarette butts) that he often embedded in the surfaces of his paintings. These material qualities, together with the fact that he worked on the floor rather than an easel and didn’t so much paint per se as splash paint down onto the canvas, letting gravity do most of the work for him, suggest a reading of Pollock’s work as a kind of debasement of painting itself. And according...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Paintings | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Ryan may have blond hair and blue eyes,” Tim half-joked as we climbed the stairs to the third floor, “but I think Noah’s dreamy...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEES AND DESIST: The Utter Failure Of A Noble Scheme | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Turnbull, who now lives in a Concord Avenue apartment on the same floor as his father, never married and doesn’t keep his phone connected. He prefers to use his phone line for the Internet...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Chessmaster Anything but Pawn | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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