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...video "The Way Things Go," in the "Sausage Series" the artists remove human presence and distort scale, producing a world of crude cinematic maquettes overrun by cigarette-butt villagers and sausage-mobiles. In "The Carpet Shop" a group of cornichons inspect piles of thinly-sliced processed meat doubling as Persian carpets with fat-swirl designs and olive-chunk embroidery. Hardly just playing with their food, in these photographs Fischli and Weiss provide a wry social critique, probing the banality and vulgarity of a middle-class Swiss breakfast--an insult to American anti-cholesterol culture. Yet, at the same time their...
...Given this deadline, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what will happen next. Shore leave has been canceled aboard the USS Nimitz in the Persian Gulf. And according to the Turkish press, the U.S. has requested permission to use their air bases in Turkey for an air strike against Iraq. Is Saddam, the Bad Boy of Baghdad, due yet another spanking...
...with all things bright and Aquarian, it helps to have an open mind. There may be no scientific basis for homeopathy, but when you look into the eyes of Sailor, a buff-colored nine-year-old Persian mix, you want to believe. Three years ago, Sailor suffered from asthma and diabetes. Heavy-duty drugs had sapped her strength, and conventional vets recommended euthanasia. When her owner, Carley Alderman, brought her to Wynn's office, Sailor could hardly move. Wynn confirmed the diagnosis, then changed Sailor's treatment to a series of homeopathic pellets. The cat rallied. "She runs...
There's a fine line between such worthwhile news photos and so-called "filler," but I believe that the line does exist. Using Monday's paper as an example, I'd classify the photo of the U.S. aircraft landing on a carrier in the Persian Gulf from the Real World page as worthwhile news. Harvard students should know about urgent movements of U.S. troops. On the other hand, the quarter-page photo on page A-6 of that same paper of a Paris fashion show featuring spring 1998 styles was unquestionably filler...
...boom? The institute doesn't quite know, but "unpredictable tensions" in the Middle East and east Asia were cited, along with favorable oil prices in the Persian Gulf. But whatever the reason, the future looks bright for the bomb industry...