Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, storm chasing is arduous work that generally entails more common sense than courage and more physical discomfort than danger. Professional chasers often drive 15 hours a day for days at a time, subsisting on junk food and virtually no sleep. "We eat whatever Texaco, Conoco and Citgo are willing to serve up," laughs University of Oklahoma meteorologist Joshua Wurman. Nor do the hazards of the job always come from nature. Last year Wurman stopped during a chase to help extract a car from a ditch. "While I was pushing, the driver gunned his engine and I was covered...
...army of occupation. If you look, you know that the '60s had a core of nobility and tragedy. It breaks the heart still to think of Medgar Evers or Martin Luther King Jr., or the night Bobby Kennedy was shot. But so much of the time turned to meretricious junk, an idealism gone clueless and narcissistic. We saw traces of the pattern again in the case of the Unabomber, for example--Rasputin with a chemistry set. Or we felt the vibration in the dreamy, New Age utterances of poor seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff's mother...
...earliest pieces in the show, from 1954 to 1957, are terrible--Beat coffee-shop art writ large. What enabled him to become an artist in the 1960s was junk, scraps, the offcuts and excreta of America, which he combined first into small hybrid pieces and then into whole rooms and environments. As a hunter-gatherer, a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, he was a whiz. He put in everything, including the kitchen sink--no, make that the whole kitchen. Some of the catalog entries for this show, listing title, date and materials, sound more like small towns than works...
...assembly of junk into metaphoric objects has an ancestry that goes back to Surrealism and German Dada. Joseph Cornell in the 1940s was the first American to base a whole oeuvre on it; Robert Rauschenberg in the '50s picked up on him; and Kienholz in the '60s on Rauschenberg. But whereas Cornell was butterfly gentle and Rauschenberg effusively open, Kienholz was a raging satirist attached to the view from over the top. Show him any kind of Establishment, and he loathed it. Almost from the start his work was about social pain, madness, estrangement. He hated all cant, including...
...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, like CONFIG.SYS and SYSTEM.INI, and remove junk left behind by old programs...