Word: spills
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...Australian delegation's thatched fale in the festival village, Laifoo has also been conducting print workshops with other islanders. Through his teemingly detailed linocut carvings, Laifoo records the stories of his island, from the signs of turtle-mating season (the turtles turn clockwise) to the 1977 oil spill that signaled the end of the pearl-diving industry. "I believe in preserving culture through arts and song," he says, "to revitalize them and start a new wave through our culture...
Even when the primaries ended, the imbalance persisted: Obama drew massive coverage while McCain struggled to get attention for anything beyond his occasional flubs. When Obama visited Jerusalem in July, McCain was dealing with an applesauce spill in a Pennsylvania supermarket. When Obama spoke in Berlin's Tiergarten, McCain was ordering chocolate cream puffs to go at a German restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. "Obama's foreign trip was the last proof that we needed--so it is what it is," says a second senior McCain adviser, who, like the first, asked for anonymity. "The media decided that the race...
...didn't mind the director tagging along. (Hey, Nanette! I'm gonna T.P. some dork's house. Bring your camera and mike!) We may amend Warhol's law to say that everyone will be notorious for 15 minutes and that no one will mind a bit. As ordinary folks spill their guts on Maury and the reality shows, as young stars go picturesquely bonkers for the paparazzi, people may no longer feel embarrassed about anything. It's not indiscretion, it's publicity. The Warsaw kids aren't upset at how they look in the movie; they're out promoting...
...most complacent of environmentalists should have received a wake-up call last month, when the Justices, by a 5-3 decision, drastically reduced the punitive damages awarded to victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill - from $5 billion to $500 million. That decision could have a chilling effect on punitive damages overall. "It's potentially a very sweeping ruling against the effort to hold corporations accountable for environmental damage and misconduct," says Kendall. "Already the court is favoring corporate interests, and it could clearly get worse...
...comically thin and humble. This would be in keeping with Eliasson's general practice. Even for a project like this one, in which he's operating within (and undercutting) the Baroque tradition of massively theatrical artworks, the ordinary mechanical workings of his spectacle - the exposed steel framework, the visible spill trays at the top - are deliberately exposed to view. To borrow Frank Stella's phrase, "What you see is what you see." Which, of course, even when Stella said it, had several meanings...