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...artistic expression," says Cho, 30, a professional graphic artist and painter. "It's not an obsession, less yet a life's work. It's just something I've decided to do for a while to humorously convey the disbelief a lot of people feel when they see some big pile of crap and think, 'How can anyone be so disgusting as to leave that for people to walk...
...hard to go broke overestimating a boy's yen to see stuff get smashed to hell. Climb Arnold Schwarzenegger's money pile sometime and ask him. Cousins Trey Roski, 35, and Greg Munson, 34, knew this desire well as kids. "We collected remote-controlled helicopters," recalls Roski. "Greg would put them together, and I'd break them." Says Munson: "Whatever we built--Legos, Lincoln Logs--the end result would be destroying...
...Sunday's Fox telecast was watched by an estimated 30 million viewers, and anyone who tuned in from curiosity was rewarded with a race that featured a near-record 49 lead changes and a spectacular 18-car pile-up on lap 174 from which everybody walked away. By all accounts, an exciting race, and one that might have converted many of the estimated 30 million viewers. But the Earnhardt crash - that's the kind of thing that gets people involved, and when the main complaint about the fading-fast XFL is that it isn't extreme enough, NASCAR shouldn...
...love of his native soil. Even though the scope of Davidar's saga compares to Seth's novel, its capable prose lacks the magical turns of phrase found in A Suitable Boy. Davidar's is a deliberate, enduring tale and one that proves years of plowing through a slush pile?learning how not to write?can produce a master storyteller...
...followed by Conceptual Art, which even got rid of the cinder blocks and left only a residue of words), is that in art people love rarity, singularity, fully realized handcraft, fine materials and interesting content--the last not to be confused with mere storytelling. To most of them a pile of bricks a la Carl Andre is just that, a pile of bricks, and nothing, especially nothing written in the strained jargon of "modularity," "sequentiality" and "factuality" favored by critics in art magazines, is going to lift it into the same category of experience as a marble carving...