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...Money is no object. I'll spend a million dollars if I have...
...membership find naked insults tothe integrity of women funny and think that thosewho object lack a sense of humor," they wrote...
Price's work, in its terse, witty and episodically lurid sharpness, argues otherwise, and has been doing so for nearly 30 years. To complicate matters, Price plays with traditional forms of useful ceramics such as the cup and the vase without producing a usable object: they become a sort of armature for flights of entirely nonutilitarian fantasy...
Right from the start, Voulkos -- the father figure of California pottery at the time and for decades thereafter -- inspired Price to break the rules, and the most binding of these was the integrity of the glaze: all color on a ceramic object had to come either from the clay itself or from the glazes that, through firing, were bonded to it. But this was California, the territory of outlaw artificial color, metal flake, Duco gloss, candy stripes, epoxy bases. Price didn't go for the mass and roughness of Voulkos' work; he wanted a more concise style of object, perverse...
Venezuela was apparently targeted because it had chaired the Security Council session that imposed the sanctions. Another object of mob ire was Russia's embassy. The former Soviet Union was once Libya's best friend and supplier in the "anti-imperialist" struggle...