Word: fusses
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...LIPTON, SIZZLE AND STIR "When you cook," said commercials for this prefab meal kit, "you're a family." And what a family! In one of the spots, surreally cast with a potpourri of midlist celebs, "Mom" Sally Jessy Raphael and "Dad" Chuck Woolery fuss in the kitchen, while the "kids," squabbling over setting the table, turn out to be Pat Morita and Little Richard. Does that dinner mix come in tutti frutti...
...Talibans don't believe in TV or newspapers. Afghans haven't seen those horrifying images of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. An aid worker friend was in Afghanistan at the time, trying to explain the dimensions of the calamity to Afghans. "They couldn't understand what the fuss was about. They thought the World Trade Center was a few shops at a caravan crossing. No building in Kabul is over four stories high. They simply couldn't imagine what a skyscraper was like...
...been invaded by metaphor, narrative, and gleeful appropriation of historical styles,” Kertess writes in the show’s description. And so Kertess uses the paintings of Carroll Dunham, Sue Williams, Laura Owens and James Rosenquist, the photographs of Aaron Siskin, Wolfgang Tillmans and Adam Fuss, to demonstrate this point. In each piece of the show the influence of daily life and the outside world is visible, sometimes by means of a decontextualized reference to an everyday object and other times through shapes with figurative overtones...
...Fuss sucessfully infuses a kind of meta-realism into his work, using the actual process as a means of bringing the outside world into abstraction. His photograms—prints created sans negative, by placing objects directly on photosensitive material—resemble a cross between the line and drips of Pollock and the intertwining strands of a DNA molecule. In his photogram from the series “Details of Love” (1992), childlike and uneven multi-colored (but predominantly black) squiggles dance around the browned surface, pulling and leaping and creating a tangled web. The lines...
...private and barely nodded when neighbors said hello. But they never did anything suspicious enough for her to speak up. When the manager at a nearby hotel refused a full refund to one hijacker when he checked out early, the man showed no emotion and didn't make a fuss...