Word: objects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficulty of seeing art-especially contemporary art-in Boston has less to do with a simple lack than with inefficient distribution. Other cities put art in centralized depositories and then put these depositories in proximity to each other, creating zones of very high art-object per square-foot ratios, such as New York's supremely logical Museum Mile...
...Democratic candidate debate may have been the bland leading the bland, but the GOP's five angry men were somewhat neutered by the absence of the object of their anger. "Perhaps in the future, in a forum like this, if we call it a fund-raiser he may show up," candidate Steve Forbes said cattily of the absence of Governor George W. Bush from Thursday night's Republican candidates' town meeting in New Hampshire. But then, as Senator Orrin Hatch quickly jabbed, Forbes is sufficiently endowed by his family fortune to avoid the trawling for millions among the special interests...
Hoffmann, who called Hughes a beatnik, said Hughes was one of the few Harvard professors to publicly object...
...name "Dipper," which became "Big Dipper." He called his boat and his house Ursa Major. "It has a certain beauty and power and grace and majesty," he wrote. "And it represents something real, enduring, eternal. It's not just a nursery-rhyme reference to my height or some inanimate object." He added, "It's bigger than life itself," not indicating how hard that was to bear...
...like to see and live the world with such vistas opening everywhere and in everything--in time. Whether a practice or an object, I like to pick it up and see its history, its predecessors, its equivalents, and to question obsolescence as often as possible. It's not retro or "classic," it's not Luddite, it's not fetishization or nostalgia, nor noodling trivia-mongering, nor slavish creative anachronism...