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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Warhol made--where striking visuals and fluffy text create and feed desire. In 1978 Warhol said, "I never read; I only look at pictures." He taught the idea crowd that everything out there was tasty bullshit, allowing them to round out their relativism. Eat up, he said. And so giant Brillo boxes colonized art galleries, challenging the exaggerated intellects of art critics. Meaning was out of fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Everyone Will Be | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...night, Ivy wore a glittery tank (Helmut Lang) with only a single shoulder strap (asymmetrical). Sort of like Andre the Giant when he was a bad guy, only a lot hotter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...deeply concerned about the future of this art form that I've spent 50 years in," said Prince, who will turn 72 in January. "The advent of giant corporations--the conglomerations--has deeply inhibited creativity...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Twenty-Time Tony Winner Bemoans State of Broadway | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...Microsoft of the genetically modified food industry, Monsanto, is under attack yet again - and, as in the case of the Seattle monolith, its opponents are charging monopoly. Tuesday, lawyers for six farmers filed a class action suit against the seed giant, charging Monsanto with conspiring to control the world's vast seed trade. The suit also claims Monsanto and other companies rush their products to market without testing them adequately for safety. While Monsanto's genetic-engineering business has been the target of many attacks over the past several years, particularly in Europe, Tuesday's suit marks a new tack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anti-'Frankenfood' Forces Try a New Tactic | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...pacifist and feminist in England." Today it is the bogeymen of globalization and world trade that bring out their own kooky crowd. There they were in Seattle last week: Zapatistas, anti-Nike-ites, butterfly defenders. They joined steelworkers and the Sierra Club, Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan in a giant anti-trade jamboree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Luddites | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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