Word: platforms
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...assembly were techniques that had already been used meticulously by Picasso and Kurt Schwitters. Rauschenberg jammed his found objects together with a different kind of abandon. He produced industrial-strength "combines," big pieces in which worlds collided with a bang. Monogram, from 1955 to '59, featured a wooden platform on which stood a stuffed Angora goat with a tire around its waist. It was typical...
...first to be indecipherable, on a closer look the combines turn out to be a balance?a combination, let's say?of sense and nonsense. Take that goat, for instance, the one that appears in one of his most famous works, Monogram. The distinguished beast, standing on a platform that is actually a Rauschenberg painting, is ringed snugly around its middle by a rubber tire. Goat equals sex drive. Tire equals bodily orifice - you choose which one. Monogram turns out to be a logo for the male libido...
...Politics is like driving a car,” Hodes said. “If you want to go forward, put it in D. If you want to go back, put it in R.” Though he said the Democratic Party currently lacks a defined, cohesive platform, Hodes remained optimistic about the Democrats’ potential to improve the current situation. He outlined a series of issues he said he believed all Democrats could rally around. “We stand for real security, healthy families, a sustainable planet, and opportunity for all—not just those...
...able to go to a page and choose from thousands of applications, and add them, free, to our site. (Here's a list of some of the applications. As Friend Connect grows, expect the list of applications to explode; Google, like Facebook before it, is trying to create a "platform" for developers to make money by reaching an audience of millions...
...mudroom to America. And, as is often the case, the door to the outside is more exciting than the door to the inside. The international terminal of Logan Airport, high-ceilinged and abuzz with travelers, invokes adventure and exoticism. North Station, by contrast, is a dark concrete platform in the shadow of the Boston Garden. There’s no adventurers here—just commuters, lined up to travel into the country’s inner rooms...