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...That is not much consolation to 17-year-old Afrina. When she tells her story, villagers hover nearby, some weeping. But Afrina does not cry. In a matter-of-fact way, she tells how soldiers came looking for her father last January in a village that nestles up against the gates of ExxonMobil's Cluster I gas field. They didn't find him, so they took her instead. For three days, she sat in a pool of water in a warehouse fronted by a sign that read: "You are now entering the Mobil premises." The soldiers told her to remove...
...film's most startling and depressing images is a telephoto shot of a suburban street clogged with fast-food joints and retail shops; it could be a mug shot of Anywhere, U.S.A. Clowes said he wanted the theme to "hover in the background: the sense that everything in America is becoming the same." That is the case with most American movies about the young; they are as similar in taste and emotional nourishment as McDonald's is to Burger King. In this arid landscape, the edifice of Ghost World, with all its acute insolence, stands out like the Taj Mahal...
...even inside golf holes. And technology is giving marketers even more opportunities: interactive TV screens in the backs of taxis, moving 3-D images that can be printed on posters and postcards, machines that produce 3-D holographs of products and logos that seemingly morph into one another and hover in space. Sometimes the forms mix. London agency The Media Vehicle uses 3-D effects to produce cart-stopping grocery-floor ads - like an image of an oversized can of Guinness stout seemingly bursting through the floor...
...competition or the crashes - look deep in your heart before answering - danger is part and parcel of the thrill. When a sport's competitors strap themselves into two-ton steel thoroughbreds and take off around the crowded oval at nearly 200 miles an hour, death will always hover above the infield...
...answer to such questions turned out to hover somewhere between "Maybe" and "Uh, no." The lesson of the past three decades, since Minimalism hove on the horizon (soon to be followed by Conceptual Art, which even got rid of the cinder blocks and left only a residue of words), is that in art people love rarity, singularity, fully realized handcraft, fine materials and interesting content--the last not to be confused with mere storytelling. To most of them a pile of bricks a la Carl Andre is just that, a pile of bricks, and nothing, especially nothing written...