Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...argue about sports - the best players, best stadiums, best way to communicate with a drunk Eagles fan. Totally harmless stuff...
...mail looked harmless enough. Be at the Renaissance Austin Hotel, 20 minutes from the office, in about an hour. Just another stupid meeting, no doubt. But by the time Dell IT specialist Chuck Peterson walked into a room filled with 75 of his co-workers and a few managers he had never seen before, he knew what was up. "None of them would look at us," he says. "They had their backs to us, or they were looking at their feet...
...love was not enough. Sunday morning the government tried again--and this time it was not rebuffed. The crowds that had filled the streets outside his house had evaporated overnight. A police caravan arrived at the house, and other than a few harmless gunshots reportedly fired off by Milosevic's overwrought daughter, there was little drama. The ex-strongman was bundled into a car and zipped to Belgrade's central jail, a 10-minute ride from his house that took just three on the empty morning streets...
...Delvoye's latest work looks perfectly harmless in the middle of his chaotic studio in a nondescript part of Ghent. But that is only because it is at rest before heading off in May for the inaugural exhibit of Vienna's new Kunsthalle, and then on to Zurich's Migros Museum and then to New York. Normally it leaves no viewer unmoved. Called Cloaca, it consists of some $200,000 worth of chemical beakers, electric pumps and plastic tubing arrayed on a row of antiseptic stainless steel tables. When Cloaca is on exhibit, an attendant climbs the metal staircase...
...should tell her that there is the news of the honest broker. And the news of the fair-minded. And of the modest, the quiet, the traditional, the faithful, the harmless, the on time, the responsible, the unglamorous, the unambitious, the unchatty, the constant and the tender...