Word: muted
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...Bourgeois, who inhabits the space like a crazy old aunt in the attic. Born in 1911, Bourgeois is one of the founding figures of feminist art, and what she does has very little to do with the sanitary composure of Minimalism. Nothing could be further removed from Judd's mute boxes than the psychodrama of Bourgeois's sculptural pieces, with their sources in the clammiest corners of the psyche and in the meat and moisture of the human body. In recent years she has been showing variations on an enormous metal spider. The one at Dia: Beacon, wedged into...
...Returning, along with a journalist and photographer, to the prison where she spent most of 1991, Nouman quickly draws a crowd of curious onlookers from the neighboring houses. She confronts them angrily: "When I was tortured here and screamed for help, did you not hear me?" The crowd remains mute...
...invasive or downright creepy, it's important to see things from the point of view of the advertisers. Not so long ago, they could reach the majority of the North American viewing public by running commercials on the three broadcast TV networks. But with the advent of cable, VCRs, mute buttons and newer technologies like the one used in TiVo, the audience has fractured into hundreds of niches not only able but likely to skip commercials. Advertisers today have to get their butts off the figurative couch and work outside the living room. They have to become hunters adept...
...passenger chooses not to engage an Interactive Taxi monitor, it will run loops of advertising, which a rider can mute. But if the rider touches the screen, the ads move to the right while the left side offers ways to get information of every kind from news headlines to hotel listings. In the future, Interactive Taxi hopes to enable consumers to order advertised items by swiping a credit card through a scanner attached to the video screen...
...commanders failed to notice antiterror police ringing the building. When he arrived on the second floor, he recognized his captors and gave up without a fight. According to investigators, battle-hardened paramilitaries and criminals known for their silence under duress - one of the charged was known simply as the Mute - began to talk. The inducement: a mistaken impression of what was involved in becoming a protected witness. "This was a new concept for them," says Milic. They thought that they would be absolved of responsiblity for any crimes they had committed. "It became a competition," Milic says...