Word: knocks
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...being as elusive as he is shocking. He doesn’t have a cell phone or a computer, has purposely impaled his doorbell with a screwdriver so as not to be bothered, and uses a periscope perched on his window to verify the identities of those who knock. He is perhaps best known as either the subject or photographer of illicit acts. Almost one full year ago I visited one of his new installations, made with Dan Colen, at a gallery in my neighborhood. “Nest” was an adaptation of the “hamster...
...consequence of this abundance of caution is a disruption that Seaney compares to "22 snowstorms in the middle of spring." American, like just about every major airline in the U.S. these days, is flying packed planes and fewer of them. Knock out half of its schedule, and there's nowhere for those passengers to go because other carriers don't have the empty seats to absorb them. American handed out $500 travel vouchers to passengers who had simply given...
...good measure, I went and checked out the knock-off blogs Stuff Educated Black People Like (#9 Town Homes; #16 Moving to Atlanta) and Stuff Asian People Like (#30 Cash; #46 Cutting in Line). I was alarmed to see that while I get those lists and they're kind of funny, I don't like most of that stuff. I especially hate Atlanta...
...once explained the theory of his research with an analogy from his past: “If your bombers are being shot down, you can either develop higher flying bombers or you can knock out the anti-aircraft guns and use the old bombers.” Knowles preferred the latter...
...pedestal, purely to bring it down. "In America they'd say, 'This is great. We're going to make it work.' But here we say, 'It's great, but that door could be a little bit closer there,'" he says. "It's a British disease to knock things...