Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar contradiction underlies Ray's big piece blandly titled Unpainted Sculpture, 1997. He found a Pontiac Grand Am that had been totaled in a crash that killed the driver, and then proceeded to dissect out each of its hundreds of distorted parts, make fiberglass copies of them, paint them a uniform light gray and reassemble them as a ghost wreck: maximum violence contradicted by a sort of plodding cool...
Eight minutes later, we're back at our waiting spot, and in less than 60 seconds a blue Pontiac with four men in it drives by us and through the intersection. The car isn't stolen, but a check on the insurance reveals it has been revoked. The officers come back to the squad car to wait on a Social Security number check on the driver...
...PONTIAC...
...Didn't Die: It has been called Pontiac's Second Rebellion (the first began in 1763, when the eponymous Indian chief made war against the English). People here rose up against high-volume discounters draining the life from downtown. The old city hall was turned into a low-rent "business incubator" for successful niche shops that went on to colonize Main Street...
Reason to Have Second Thoughts: 1,600-inmate, maximum-security Pontiac Correctional Center...