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...Artwork has a monetary value, but it should have a more emotional value," he says. To make art something other than a static endeavor which is either purchased for large sums of money, or viewed on weekends by large crowds in prestigious museums, Tom has made his art a literal part of the city...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Friendly Artist Makes Cambridge His Galllery | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

...bunch of punk rockers, students and hangers-on living together in slovenly chaos in Melbourne's post-punk scene of the late '70s. Their life is a constant decadent merry-go-round of clubs and convenience stores, drugs and drugged-out sex. The characters are bored enough to watch static on TV, as they do in one scene. You can imagine how the audience feels...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Dog On Screen | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

...glasnost, Thompson was granted rare access to the Soviet Flight Control Center in Kaliningrad. There, through an interpreter, he communicated with the orbiting cosmonauts during a brief period in which they were in contact with earth. The clarity of the transmission was astonishing, Thompson reports. "There was no static...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Oct. 5, 1987 | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...about our age of Television and the Short Attention Span. In an early sketch, Lou Jacobi plays a man who accidentally aims his remote control at himself and winds up on whatever program happens to be on his set. For the rest of the movie, an instant of television static, as if someone were changing channels, appears between each sketch...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Amazing Amazons | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

Eventually, the Newtonian notion of the Constitution came to seem static. ; Thinkers like Woodrow Wilson and Oliver Wendell Holmes began referring to it as an animate thing. Wrote Wilson: "Society is a living organism, and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ark of America | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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