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Tan’s phrase is an accurate description for the whimsical and idiosyncratic artistic accoutrements of Dudley House. Residents of the co-op have gradually added decorations since Harvard first bought the building in 1958. The accumulation over the years ranges from Ouija boards and drums made from soup cans to Jimi Hendrix posters and an orange bathtub full of koi fish. And that’s just in the living room...
...education to get off the farm. Their struggles mirror the Beauchard's battle with disease. When the author's great-grandmother practices "white magic" and tells his mother of the fairies living in the fields, you can see where the door opened for his mother's eventual absorption in ouija and spiritualism. At once the story of a family in crisis, a snapshot of the late-1960s, the diary of an artist in the making, and a meditation on how the past informs the present, "Epileptic" interweaves them all into a remarkable literary whole...
...seers have claimed to divine the future by the alignments of heavenly bodies, by the casting of bones, by the whorls and lines and patterns of the human palm, by dregs of leaves in the bottom of a teacup, by shadows in a crystal ball and movements on a Ouija board...
...once awkward and elegant, corny and profound, the Whitney's selections, which can also be viewed online at www.whitney.org represent a provocative slice of this nascent art form. Take Ouija 2000 by Ken Goldberg, a site that displays live video of a real Ouija board controlled by the collective mouse strokes of as many as 20 people simultaneously logged on to the site. Another piece, Every Icon, shows a seemingly simple-looking grid that is 32 squares high and wide. Its creator, John Simon, devised a program that cycles through the trillions of ways the grid could be filled with...
...naked, hungry and like to dance, Ames, Iowa, is the place to be this Saturday, especially for Republicans. G.O.P. presidential candidates want your support in the quadrennial straw poll--a voting exercise with the precision and meaning of a Ouija board that has taken on life-or-death significance for some candidates. To entice lever pullers, campaigns have bought scores of tickets ($25 a head), hauled supporters across the state on fleets of free air-conditioned buses, and bedecked the faithful with hats, shirts and stickers. The afternoon promises to be a toe-tapping jamboree as attendees gorge themselves...