Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more aesthetic pleasure than any other show--at least of contemporary art--in town. Which isn't to say the Whitney has done the subject full justice. Its heart being where it is, the museum needed lots and lots of space to present a mass of trivia and threadbare junk from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., pointlessly documenting the pallid maestro's effect on advertising and fashion, under the title "The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion." So the Whitney's out-of-house curator, Jane Livingston, found the space for Diebenkorn whittled down to one floor and a small...
...these programs is to buy a commercial uninstall program, like MicroHelp's Uninstaller series and Vertisoft's Remove-It. These programs will look through your system files for you and remove the files you no longer need. They also edit configuration files, such as CONFIG.SYS and SYSTEM.INI, and remove junk left behind by old programs...
...unusual idea. "These men basically adopted us," Greer says. With profits from the pay phone attached to the firehouse, which had heavy use from local drug dealers, the firemen bought radios to give away each month to children who earned especially good grades. They persuaded police officers and junk dealers to begin dropping off broken bike frames. A local bicycle repairman donated old tires and rims, and a fireman named Kirkland Flowers, whom the children eventually tagged with the nickname "the mayor of Robert Taylor," started building bikes during his spare hours...
...same time, Stomp is very definitely creating a "ritual" of sorts for the very culture it came out of. As McNicholas says, if people insist on deriving any message from Stomp, it should be "Do it yourself." (Using junk, household and industrial objects, by its very nature, challenges the issue of waste and challenges the notion of culture as being highbrow or detached," he says. "I.e., you don't have to buy a cello or a drum kit to make music...
...economics who subsequently worked as a reporter for Forbes magazine and followed high-tech stocks as a securities analyst on Wall Street, Dyson possesses an impressive amount of practical experience with which to substantiate her conceptions. One of the most innovative suggestions she makes concerns the mass mailings of junk e-mail sent through the Net. Her plan to curb this "spamming" involves the use of "sender-pays" e-mail, wherein the recipient would be able to charge the sender before accepting the mail (or to forgive the fee, so that access is not restricted to the wealthy alone). Here...