Word: gel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Garnette Hall's work in varnished-over chocolate and cake gel on canvas was the most difficult to keep my hands off; the surface seems to be encrusted with half-molten gemstones. Similarly, Jessica Golbus '99 also starts with a canvas but then adds texture instead of paint, covering the surface with strips of screen, splintering boards and an old shirt...
...modern science and the free market, insinuations that the Nobel Prize is really not such a big deal and a conclusion that portrays literature as a heroic struggle for the future of the human race. None of this is very original, and in this case it does not gel together very well. Past Nobel Lectures like Saramago's, Garcia Marquez's and Faulkner's have done many of these things better and more coherently. But originality and style are minor points. It's the message that bothers me, commonplace...
Vice Presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03 sported the Don Johnson look with a Miami-Vice-ish ensemble complete with the open-collar olive shirt and coifed hair. The Driskell-Burton ticket went business and Sterling P. A. Darling '01 went just a little easier on the Dep gel. He even shed his jacket at the podium. (Maybe the council really does pay attention to our humble comments here at The Crimson...
...Times decided to place the artifacts in a structure resembling a giant fortune cookie. For preservation purposes, the artifacts will be suspended in thermal-gel insulation and the container will be filled with argon gas. Custody will be given to the Museum of Natural History...
Since neither argon gas nor thermal-gel is available for our use, I asked some students how they proposed to insure that the Class of 3000 would receive our gift...