Word: papering
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...original works Suwage produced at the Tyler Institute bear the marks of this dissent. One depicts a naked woman against slate-gray letters - the text of the antiporn law - embossed onto paper that is often kneaded by hand from raw cotton. The physicality of Agus' finished piece, with letters extruding from crenellated surfaces, is one way his print works are unique. The use of repetition is also striking. Suwage is already well known for political commentary. With printing, his barbs have even greater sting. "The message becomes much stronger than on a single canvas work," says Tan Boon Hui, director...
...print series of male nudes cartographic precision. Chinese installation artist Lin Tianmiao, used to working in large spaces with big props, cut her work down to a more intimate scale. She created a series of hauntingly vacant faces over which she superimposed a sheet of ribbed and pebbled paper. The scarred surface of the works imbued them with an irresistible texture...
...recession but also the cumulative effect of a decade of negative labor practices like cutting pensions, avoiding hiring workers by extending the hours of salaried employees, and outsourcing [Sept. 21]. I was laid off from a temporary tax job in April, and I have been unemployed since. On paper, my unemployment appears to be a consequence of the recession. In fact, it is a result of the 2002 offshoring of my prior job: a well-paying, 24-year IT career with AT&T and IBM. Had that not happened, I most likely would have retired in 2008, after 30 years...
Michael turns a conversation about toilet paper into a conversation about planets because of a certain homonym for Uranus...
Fallon, Tian, and Zhang sent their term paper to HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin, but with no guarantee that the University would act on any of their recommendations. Spring and summer passed with little word from HUDS...