Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this peculiar sensation can happen stone-cold-sober when trying to get an autograph at Disney World. I was seven. I was so excited. I walked right up to the Mouse and thrust a pen in his face. Suddenly, I heard a disconcertingly masculine voice emanating from the oversized plastic head, and it spoke to me. It spoke to me. And it said: "Look, kid, my hands are too big." Talk about sensory dissonance...
...didn't and still doesn't care about teaching us what theoretical limits can be assigned to art. But he does care passionately about the life and health of painting, as distinct from the mere evocation of image haze; and as a draftsman, colorist and all-around creator of plastic sensation, he has no rivals in the American generation behind his. After so much photo-based figure painting in which the actual scrutiny of the living body, in all its resistant complexity, played no part at all, Kitaj's figural art posed serious questions that American artists, in particular, were...
...defend the NEA from Newt Gingrich's snipping shears, send a pair of your own to your senator or representative. The Caucus suggests that you take a pair of plastic scissors, glue them shut so that they won't cut, and write "No Cuts to the Arts" on them. The scissors can be sent through the U.S. Mail in a plastic baggie with a mailing label taped to the outside. Be sure to include a note stating your name and address, and that you are a registered voter...
Free pairs of plastic scissors for the project will be available at Pearl Art Supplies, 579 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Just be sure you don't get so excited that you run home with the scissors...
Probably because of their use of Woodythe Wooden Penis and Patty the Plastic Pelvis intheir skits, PCC has one of the best knownoutreaches. PCC designs its outreach to provideimportant information about contraception tofirst-years who may not necessarily have it. Formany first-years, college is a time of sexualawakening and many do not know how contraceptivesare used or what contraceptives are there to beused. "It's important that [first-years] go intothis change of lifestyle well-equipped," MatthewB...