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Welty's penchant for intricately presented collections of absolutely random objects is blatantly clear with the crowning jewel of the show. Her "Altered Receipts" is a collection of ingenious doodles on receipts from places like Finagle A Bagel and Banana Republic. Taken individually, each receipt could be construed as the product of intense boredom, yet the line of barely recognizable receipts, each individually framed and centered on white paper, underscores how art can be found anywhere and created from anything, even a receipt from Marshalls...
...then, the crown jewel of the voting fiasco, the ineptly designed Palm Beach "butterfly" ballot, a ballot that caused thousands of primarily minority voters to wail that they may have given their precious vote to (gasp!) Pat Buchanan. Even Pat "The Nazi" Buchanan admits that these votes were not for him (probably out of some sort of desire to keep all of his votes "ethnically pure"), but we need not just take his word for it. Statisticians put the probability that fewer than 1743 (the margin between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Gore before this first recount...
...This fanboy's favorite Mikels opus, however, is the redoubtable "Ten Violent Women" (1979). Ted's most loosely plotted picture (loose scripting being a supreme virtue in exploitation cinema), "Women" concerns a group of female miners whose jewel heists and drug deals land them in prison. Once there, we witness the requisite staples of the women-in-prison genre (making this the most lurid film Mikels ever made) as the girls engage in shower catfights, evade the lustful warden, and endure a bizarre paint-can-on-the-head torture session. They eventually escape to safety - and the waiting arms...
...JEWEL's book of poems may have been critically savaged, but it netted something far more important than respect: readers. About 700,000 of them, or just 699,000 more than the average successful book of poetry. For that reason, the market is braced for Chasing Down the Dawn: Life Stories, your standard inspirational-rock-star-travelogue-and-Alas ka-guide-with-baby-snaps. "I wrote at least 1,000 pages for the book," says Jewel, though the final text comes in at a tight 176. "I enjoy writing about really small moments that are very fleeting but filled with...
...think it's the most challenging course we have. It's really the crown jewel of the program," says Stephen M. Kosslyn, head tutor of the Psychology Department...