Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catalog presents quite a riff on this subject when it reflects on what might strike the unprepared visitor as the wretched pictorial ineptitude of such artists as Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley and Karen Kilimnik. (Williams can't draw at all, although her installation The Sweet and Pungent Smell of Success includes a dandy splotch of plastic vomit.) Their work, says the catalog, "deliberately renounces success and power in favor of the degraded and dysfunctional, transforming deficiencies into something positive in true Warholian fashion." Presumably if they weren't vigilant with themselves, they might turn into teensy Titians, engorged...
...very own Garden of Eden. Mount Auburn Street could be a million miles away. This fall the energetic House Committee sent two busloads of Lowellians to romp in the leaves of western Massachusetts. The Winter Waltz brings Vienna to your very own dining hall. In the spring you can smell the roses that one of the tutors cares for so reverently, and you can help set off the "cannons" for the annual open-air read-through of the 1812 Overture. And what other house hosts the longest running opera in New England...
...novelist King generally benches herself after a hyperbolic airball or two. Wisely she sidesteps the artificiality (author's choice, after all) of pivoting her story on winning or losing the big games. Her teenagers of both sexes are believably psychotic, and both locker rooms have the edgy, acrid smell of a zoo just before feeding time...
...hazard, just a smell of gasoline from outside," said O'Donoghue...
Temple said no one reported smelling gas later in the day. "The smell has dissipated and we haven't smelled any fumes," she said...