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...most art-historically significant qualities of his work. It is the quality most influental on the next generation of American artists, for example Andy Warhol and Robert Smithson. (Warhol explicitly exaggerated the base connotations of Pollock’s painting in his so called “Piss Paintings,” which he made by urinating onto—and thereby oxidizing—canvasses that had been coverd in metallic pigments. Smithson explored similar ideas in his glue and asphalt pours, in which he poured glue or asphalt down a hill and let the action of gravity...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Paintings | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...asks if I’ve ever ridden before. I say no and his eyes grow wide. “You nervous?” “Yes,” I say, and tell him I’m doing it just to piss off my parents. He looks at me quizzically. “Don’t you like your parents?” I smile and wait for him to go away...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ride and Fall | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

...Adami is, to tap a keg and chug a beer at a corporate gathering in front of several hundred cheering workers. There are probably even fewer at his level who are given to earthy battle cries like "If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't piss like a puppy" or "Never come to a gunfight with only a knife." But Adami surely needed all the fighting spirit he could muster when, almost 18 months ago, his longtime employer, South African Breweries (now known as SABMiller), dispatched him to Milwaukee, Wis., to help restore its floundering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brew-Haha! The Battle Of The Beers | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...only has Iraq become a resource sinkhole, it has also become a breeding ground for new terrorists. The invasion managed to piss off a lot of potentially dangerous people. It has provoked strident anti-Americanism in the Islamic world and alienated us from millions of Muslims at a time when we should be most concerned with fostering good will. That al Qaeda and other radical Islamic fundamentalists should be so invested in the fate of Saddam’s secular state demonstrates just how polarized matters have become...

Author: By Sasha Post, | Title: What Appeasement? | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

...because it was shot in my hometown—my sister thinks that the film’s skating rink is the same one where we spent a lot of Saturday mornings back in elementary school—so I appreciated the film more for that than for its piss poor plotting or Charlize’s courageous stunt performance...

Author: By Ben B. Chung and Ben Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Possible Sunshine in a Plotless Year | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

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