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Sponsors' stickers covered the cars, and spare tires and gas cans sat upon them in roof racks, so we were a curiosity to locals at most rest stops (though not as curious, I think, as the sign for the Testicle Festival in Montana...
...need for motivational speakers also make it hard for doctors and nurses to find time to attend their sessions. She cites a speaking visit to a hospital when she had to give 20 separate five-minute presentations at nurse stations, because the nurses did not have an hour to spare for her lecture...
...prevailing climate of this collection is one of spare, sharp lines, big graphics and crisp edges. John loves Irving Penn, whose work looks clean and sober even when his subject was a New Guinea tribesman caked in ceremonial mud. He loves Robert Mapplethorpe, but without the whips and chains, which means the Mapplethorpe of laser-cut male torsos and tulips that loom before you like stage-lit pachyderms. These pictures were not collected by the inebriated stage floozy we used to know and love. They bear the mark of the studious Sir Elton John, a man buying things...
...words for an effect of velocity and acceleration. The blurred-up effect towards the bottom of each piece gives you a feel of the rush of a hot rod screaming by and definitely disrupts the usual static nature of written text. Prince uses mail-order car hoods to create spare sculptures. They are painted with smooth, pastel shades of lime green and orange, giving the pieces a quiet sense of prettiness that subdues their actual use as parts of flaming hot rods. The contrast is striking and evocative. Finally, Fleury's pieces are attempts at destroying...
...help. Timon sends them all away and refuses to defend Athens against invasion. Alcibiades is Timon's only faithful friend, and in return Timon gives him gold. As the city falls, Timon dies in the woods, but the memory of his former self prompts the conqueror to spare Athens and reestablish peace...