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Authorities said the fire was broughtunder control around 2 a.m. Saturday morning. Buteven late Saturday afternoon, firefighterscontinued to pump thousands of gallons of wateronto smoldering embers...
...latest book "Nothing But Good Times Ahead" at 5:30 p.m. and action director John Woo's Vietnam film "Bullet in the Head" shows at 7:40 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 5. The Back to School series includes "If..." at 4 and 7:50 p.m. and "Pump Up the Volume" at 6 and 9:50 p.m. on Wednesday...
...maybe marinate and roast them, which it appears the chefs at HDS tried to do yesterday. I'm not sure what the marinade consisted of, exactly, but I'm not sure it matters, either. Somewhere along the line, it appears the ill-fated legs were popped into a vacuum pump for freeze-drying...
Some of Horn's films, and videos of her performances, can be watched at the Guggenheim, but the main body of the show is sculpture: mechanized objects that pump liquids around, or reduce lumps of carbon to black dust with tiny pecking hammers, or swivel suspended binoculars in an anxious parody of disembodied inspection, or flap small wings. Some devices, slender granddaughters of Jean Tinguely's painting machines of the '50s, splatter paint around on the walls or (with more fetishistic suggestion) on women's shoes. No doubt to spare the clothes of the museum audience, these stay switched...
...largest work in the show, River of the Moon, 1992, consists of a tangle of thick lead pipes connected to what seems to be a pumping station. These entrails snake up the museum ramp, apparently disappearing into the walls or the floor and re-emerging; they are connected to black boxes through whose glass tops a puddle of mercury can be seen welling up and vanishing as the pump switches on and off. It is obviously meant as a metaphor for the circulation of fluids inside the human body, with lunar input. But it is a ponderous affair and mechanically...