Word: lid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plastic purple container that might normally hold a shot of creamer, filled instead with the grape juice most American Protestants use to celebrate the Lord's Supper. The Communion wafer nestles between layers of a pull-tab lid. The item, assures Johnson, is "liturgically correct." The cups cost 10¢ each. "No waste, no hassle," says Johnson. And no germs. The cup's press kit notes that it may help prevent the spread of meningitis, although Johnson says, "We are careful not to sell fear. That's not what this cup is about...
...harmonious love, her suitor) in black. You can gauge the depth of the room from the perspective clarity of its floor tiles. It is real, but at the end it becomes a paradise of abstraction, in the sober play of dark-framed rectangles of picture, mirror and the long lid of the virginal's cabinet...
Harvard's goal for the second half, then, was to stop Cieplicki while maintaining the lid on Benton. That didn't look too tough a challenge, as Cieplicki couldn't dribble to save his life...
...keep pure of all such influences, and his missteps are on display at the exhibit as well. While billed as "explorations of form, color, shape and mass," his paintings and small assemblages convey little original thought. "Relief with Bones" is a particular disaster-- constructed of chicken bones, a shoebox lid, and canvas, this mess of gouache and watercolor artlessly melds the elemental primitivism of Jean DuBuffet with the cool detachment of pop artists. Although occasionally suggesting the powerful brushwork of a Kline, Smith's other paintings pale in comparison with the power of his sculpture...
...police he had been planning to kill Rabin since at least January. The Prime Minister had been scheduled to go to Yad Vashem that month to visit the sacred memorial to the Holocaust, but when the Islamic Jihad launched a suicide bomb at a bus depot at the Beit Lid Junction in Central Israel, he canceled the visit. Several months later, Amir allegedly planned to assassinate Rabin at a highway dedication in Kfar Shmaryahu, but that time he could not penetrate the Prime Minister's security detail...