Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stomp's conception is this: The world around us is filled with rhythm--rhythm that can be drawn out of anything; household objects, industrial junk, the lowbrow things you find in your pockets, the natural world itself. That means that the world is filled with music. "You can make music out of absolutely anything, whether it's...tapping on a Coke can or picking up pebbles on the beach," says the show's co-creator Steve McNicholas. "It's what you want to do with...
...stock market and owe billions to the banks. It raises the fear that, as in Japan, real estate deflation could undermine the whole fragile structure. If that happened, the tremors that shook the world's financial markets last week would seem as placid as a sail on a junk in Hong Kong harbor...
Nothing like a few lawsuits to help drum up business. As Internet service providers mobilize to keep bulk E-mailers at bay, the junk E-mail (called spam) has only become more pervasive. It represents, for instance, up to 20% of the 9 million E-mail messages processed by America Online each...
...past year the service has engaged in a running--and losing--battle with spammers. In the past three weeks, AOL has filed two lawsuits, most recently against Prime Data in Kentucky, for deluging AOL members with ads for online entrepreneurs. But techies are starting to accept that junk E-mail may be here to stay. The problem: new technology makes it impossible to distinguish between mail you want and spam you don't. Courts may offer temporary relief, but serious spammers say the new suits don't have them worried. "We've been through 12 lawsuits since last year," says...
...main achievement was undoubtedly in the realm of collage, which he picked up where Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell had taken it. Rauschenberg's Combines, as he called them, were made of large-scale junk, his "palette of objects," linked or partly effaced by slathers of paint and often provoked by a single key find. In Canyon, 1959, it was a stuffed eagle that had belonged to an old veteran of the Spanish-American War, an emblem of flight and power that Rauschenberg combined with a photo of a small child gesturing upward and another of distant galaxies. Considerately...