Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profitable franchises push for a salary cap, the small market teams can be saved. But, if men such as George Steinbrenner continue to revel in their ability to throw millions at top players of teams who can't afford to pay them, then salaries will continue to spiral upward and small market teams will be forced out. Someone should tell Mr. Steinbrenner and his cronies that assembling an invincible team is no fun when there is no one left to play, and everyone is too disgusted to watch...
...VIRAL SPIRAL Doctors have known that the human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted infection, is linked to cervical cancer. Now it's worse. Having the infection also significantly increases chances of anal cancer...
With their latest album Hand it Over, Mascis halts the artistic downward spiral that Dinosaur Jr. had suffered since recording a perplexingly acoustic album in early 1996. Although Martin and Me, a re-recording of old material, allowed Mascis's often brilliant songwriting to shine through, it met with mixed reviews from the critics who had come to expect Dinosaur Jr.'s melancholic lyrics to be imbued with an almost paradoxical electric fury. The new material featured on Hand it Over marks a return to the high energy Lollapalooza style that traditionally, and perhaps regrettably, has obliterated all recognizability...
...there was another structure Gehry wanted to refer to--the mother ship, as it were: Frank Lloyd Wright's original Guggenheim on Fifth Avenue, with its great empty center wound about by the spiral of exhibition ramp. Obviously that couldn't be repeated (it is, in any case, a curator's nightmare), but like the Bilbaino industrial metaphor, it could be evoked...
Warts and all, Gehry's Bilbao is the most exciting public building put up in a long time, and, unlike Wright's canonical spiral in New York, it shows every sign of working well as a place in which to show works of art. There are, of course, difficulties here, because the size of some of Gehry's galleries and their eccentricity of shape is bound to tell against the smaller paintings. Moreover, as a work of art in its own right, the museum is far more interesting than many of its contents--the dull, inflated conceptual art and late...