Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start with a little equation: WINTER=MAKEOVER. Dr. K doesn't care if you're a boy or girl; the drastic climate change calls for profound aesthetic alteration. Any makeover must begin with the right frame of mind--think to yourself, "Today I will look great and still stay warm." Repeat if necessary. Get ready for a conversion of Biblical proportion...
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...Were it not for the profound Asian respect for intellectual and scholarly endeavors, a scientist I might not be today," Ho said...
Clinton opened the debate when he told a questioner there had been "profound disagreements" over human rights. Jiang stoked it when he said he had no regrets over the brutal suppression of freedom demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989, a "political disturbance" that had "seriously disrupted social stability and jeopardized state security." The Chinese government simply "had to take necessary measures, according to law." Clinton jumped back in, saying, "I think it should be obvious to everyone that we have a very different view of the meaning of events at Tiananmen Square." Beijing's attitude on dissent has kept...
...with all of Fischli and Weiss' work, we find it impossible to untangle earnest expression and social critique. At first, we might be tempted to read the series as an indictment of contemporary society's leveling impulse to elevate the banal and lower the profound. Yet, the objects are far too funny, evocative, and lovingly-crafted to be taken simply as cynical criticism. Besides, by jumbling the mundane and the sublime, the artists make it impossible to tell which is which...