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...most exciting pieces strike you immediately; Carter Brandon and Ross Miller's sculpture, dripping wine, arrests the eye, ear, nose. One of three beautifully engineered sculptures, the work balances stretched steel cable, rods, and shimmering planes. Wine slides and spatters down its contours. Further on, Anne Taintor's silkscreen parrot quilt hangs in downy color, a softer statement; to the right large line drawings assert strength and sensuality...
...victory can't compare to being Number One." The maudlin cliches of the sports world are not geared toward the cynicism implicit in Bradley's off-beat anecdotes. There is a contradiction between his seasoned insight into professional basketball and the adolescent spirit of his language. With this parrot squawking denials on his shoulder, Bradley's Life on the Run seems not as desperate as he tries to make...
...before on American TV. Fortunately, they are unkillably hilarious even in repetition. Since the performers understandably need to catch their breath, film clips share equal billing with the live players' stage antics. When John Cleese delivers a diatribe to a shyster pet-shop owner while flogging the dead parrot that has been sold to him, the funning is lethally potent. So is the spoof on TV wrestling, in which the solo performer, Graham Chapman, is finger-jabbed and pretzel-twisted by an invisible opponent...
Cornell's boxes are not random, and they have an exquisitely ordered syntax. But Cornell rarely supplied a narrative. We do not know what the green Amazonian parrot is doing in Untitled (Parrot Habitat), 1956-57, sitting there in a box lined with mirrors and scraps of print; we have no idea what the white ball and the metal hoops mean to it. But it could not matter less, for these precise, mild, irrational encounters remain the stuff of poetry...
Harvard's Jim McMahon should gain a spot on the Crimson's top ten career scoring list this weekend. McMahon has 105 points, one less than George McManama in tenth place and two less than Kent Parrot in the ninth slot. Captain Randy Roth needs only four points to move into the fourth position...