Word: ribbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whimsies staged for the camera. Like the big, vaporous paintings he started showing in 1987, they have their moments of Thurberesque charm, but it's only the loopy dog pictures that click. Situated somewhere between Marcel Duchamp's cunning art pranks and David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks, they rib Conceptualism even as they lay out its possibilities. But in the end their effectiveness rests upon powers of portrait psychology that owe little to Conceptualist mind games...
...assailants allegedly struck Hilton in the face and upper body, and knocked him to the ground when he tried to escape, police said. While on the ground, they kicked Hilton in the stomach, the chest and the rib cage before he fled, police said...
Granted, years from now when archaeologists dig up my bones, they'll find these two blobs of unidentifiable substances clinging to the back of my rib cage or sitting on my pelvis or somewhere else. However, I no longer have to feel like a Twinkieless stranger in my own land. I have had Zoinks! and nothing will stand...
...package arrived through a Federal Express delivery from a rib company in some mid-Western state. The package didn't appear to have a name on it, and when strange, unexplainable objects appear in the office, everyone assumes that they are pitches (prospective guest ideas) for Madeleine...
Like many a red-blooded American, Olivia Vavreck of Minneapolis loves a good prime rib and a baked potato smothered in butter. But ever since she checked into the hospital with chest pains last year and learned that her cholesterol level was in the upper stratosphere, the 57-year-old office manager has tried to cut down on the fat in her diet. Easier said than done. Although the labels on every other product in the grocery store promised nutritional nirvana, Vavreck found herself floundering in quagmires of grease, salt, corn syrup and other dubious digestibles. "I thought...