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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pedestal in a gallery and sang popular British songs. In "Staring World," their contribution to "Face and Figure," the pair presents us with an enormous collage of mass market postcards. The giant rectangle is filled with alternating rows of cards picturing an idyllic waterfall, crowds praying at Mecca and a fresh-faced Rob Lowe, circa 1987. By multiplying and juxtaposing these vividly colored, incongruous pictures, Gilbert and George render banal the images and provide witty social critique. Signed boldly in red by its co-creators, "Staring World" comments on celebrity worship and the information age's endless proliferation and confusion...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: MFA Shows More Than Just a Pretty Face | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

McCollum is a tough-on-crime Republican in a district that contains the nation's family-values Mecca: Disney World. He has also backed a bill to apply the death penalty to drug kingpins and supported efforts to double U.S. border patrols--potent issues in Florida, and the eight-term incumbent apparently knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: FLORIDA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...picture the first time I met Bill Clinton, even though I was too young to remember it. It was a cool, crisp October day in 1978 in Danville, Arkansas, a small hamlet of 1,600 people in Yell County. The occasion was the Yell Country Fair, a veritable mecca for pols, both local and state...

Author: By Tom Cotton, | Title: Clinton's Politicking Is Sincere | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

...Power" users, on the other hand, should head over to Cambridge's nerd mecca: Micro Center (corner of Memorial Drive and Magazine St., near Central Sq.) Micro Center describes itself as a computer department store, and the name fits. This megastore carries almost anything you could ever want to put into your computer or onto your hard drive...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: tech TALK | 9/27/1996 | See Source »

...minutes for police to restore order. Twenty-two people suffered minor injuries and eight people, including Golota's trainer, Lou Duva, were hospitalized. Ten people were arrested. Many ringside observers described the event as the worst boxing-related riot they had seen. The Garden, which had been the mecca of boxing before losing its place to Las Vegas and Atlantic City, has been trying to revive the sport in New York City. After not holding any professional fights between March 6, 1993 and December 15, 1995, the Garden has slowly begun to regain its place in boxing. However, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bout Turns Into Riot | 7/12/1996 | See Source »

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