Word: interruptive
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...public affairs have become not much more than a subdepartment of the larger human impulse toward bloodlust. People are regularly dismembered and disfigured. Their arms are blown off, their teeth are broken, and they are starved. "I am trying to upset people," Nachtwey said recently. "I am trying to interrupt their...
...officers and Illingworth chose not to interrupt the protesters, and the students left Mass Hall at the end of the demonstration, about 15 minutes after entering...
...Unshapely splotches of white interrupt the swathes of life and limb like technographic stretchmarks, dead spaces bound up by the body's jagged fringe. These white areas are bothersome in the way unpainted canvas is bothersome. And although it is aesthetically flummoxing that two generally pleasing things to look at--portraits and maps--come out of the blender looking not quite as nice as either, beauty here is more a question of timeliness. Messing around with technology to produce art is primarily a good way to let people know what can be done, and to cultivate an appropriate degree...
...going to brag about it? Some saw an economic motive or a Quixotic tilt at the commercialization of the Internet. After all, our phantom had managed to interrupt one of Wall Street's sacred rituals: the dotcom IPO of Buy.com which was hit by a DOS attack on Tuesday afternoon, before the end of its first day as a publicly traded company. The stock had reached a peak of $30.25, then closed at an unspectacular $25.12. Just when Buy.com chief executive Gregory Hawkins should have been popping champagne corks, he was hunkering down in an emergency session with his techies...