Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What I forgot, in my brief shock of discovery, was that I'd never been a big fan of the color before. It wasn't that I was a tomboy--I was too wimpy for that. And it's not that I didn't do my share of pink activities, playing with Barbie dolls and with pink games like Candyland...
...masks transform the actors into cartoon-like creations who rape, rend and mutilate each other. Viscerally effective but some-how distant, the brutal sexual situations manage to shock without offending. However, anyone with delicate sensibilities will likely not be able to stomach the sight of ribbons, knives and concrete interacting with appendages that aren't designed for such rough treatment...
...Minneapolis in July -- is a fairly grim spectacle. It is, so to speak, a consomme double of cliche: first because the work is more kitschy than kitsch, and second because it has been so often reproduced and discussed by a sensation-hungry and ideology-obsessed art world that its shock value has gone flat. The first time you go into a gallery and see a 7-ft.-high toy bear in a striped T shirt inspecting the whistle of a London cop, all done in painted wood, faithful to the last hair, by some European souvenir manufacturer -- Koons, who probably...
...some aquarium tanks in which basketballs floated, weighed down by a solution of Epsom salts and water to neutralize their buoyancy. These rather banal objects still strike Koons' fans as veritable icons of mystery and memory. "They are . . . dead things," writes curator John Caldwell, "and we realize with a shock that that is what they are for us as well, something from the past, our own youth, familiar once and fraught with memories. . . It suddenly dawns on us that we have not touched a basketball for many years." Gag me with a madeleine, Marcel...
Only in the floodlit world of network television could a simple career move cause such shock waves. If NBC were to lose Letterman, pundits warned, its entire late-night house of cards would start to collapse after four dominant decades. If CBS managed to win him, the network would be a competitive factor in late-night TV for the first time. Casual viewers studied the subtleties of Letterman's contract and debated NBC's knotty dilemma: Stick with Jay or switch to Dave? NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw couldn't escape the subject even during a vacation following his reporting sojourn...