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...Richard Simmons levels of affection. The Barking Bone aims to scare away the bad guys while still keeping canine-hating homeowners sane. Fairall implanted a motion sensor inside a giant, apparently gnawed, dog bone made of solid resin. When the sensor is tripped, a sound chip emits a low growl followed by a torrent of ferocious barking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will They Think Of Next? | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...time for a first-rate showcase of Maas' signature "wet, hard funk," a genre-defying dance floor assault whose defining characteristic is its ability to create mass gyration on the dance floor. The basic tools-sirens, cricket chirps, claps and Maas' favorite sound effect, the synthesizer growl were not especially deft or inventive in themselves, but the insistent bass and driving beats kept the crowd eager for more. The stabs at drama, such as cutting the strobes to frame Maas between two columns of red light, were simple at best, but enthralling nonetheless...

Author: By Tom Clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CRITICAL MAAS | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...does not skip over works from Neel's transitional periods, and rightly so-these paintings are essential to the greater comprehension of Neel's progress. Some of the canvases from this time seem to be painful births-one, "Randall in Extremis" (1960), even shows the sitter in a tormented growl-in which Neel's line becomes scraggily and her compositions overcrowded...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Ask Alice: Alice Neel's telling portraits of friends, family and art-world types | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

...this year, it appears that Alice Wolf's growl has scared off all of her opponents...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Year, Wolf Won't Even Have to Bare Her Teeth | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...fond of horses to adopt the automobile, though he was the first President to fly in an airplane. Right up to the end of his term in 1907, he insisted on horse-drawn carriages ("Roosevelts are horse people"), although the streets of Washington by then echoed with the growl of gasoline engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Action Central | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

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