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When the organizers of the Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennale in Melbourne asked Australian performance artist Stelarc to submit a proposal for a site-specific installation, he came up with a novel location in which to situate the work: his stomach...
After fasting for eight hours, Stelarc ingested a 15-mm by 5-cm capsule made of titanium, stainless steel, silver and gold. The capsule was tethered to a cable, which was linked to a control box outside his body. The stomach had to be inflated with air before this metallic lozenge slithered its way into Stelarc's abdomen. Once there, the capsule unfurled to its full dimensions of 5 cm by 7 cm and began beeping and emitting flashes of light...
...look the way she should, that the fashion designer has had to work extra hard to make her look decent in the light of day. Sure, wear a bright red skirt, but pair it with a slimming shirt that takes eyes away from that unsightly thing called a stomach. Thinking of wearing a crisp white tank top? Why don’t you put an oxford shirt over it—wouldn’t want to show off those jello-jiggley arms...
When I read Weisbard declare that the janitors were “willing to make this sacrifice” of possibly being arrested because their unionized selves are not being paid as much as they think they deserve, I felt sick to my stomach. That was the first time that I was embarrassed to consider myself a liberal...
...mosque in Finsbury Park epitomizes the British attitude. It is the sort of place where you can buy stomach-turning videos (lots of throat slitting) made by Islamic extremist groups. The sermons of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the mosque's one-eyed, steel-clawed imam, continually stress the importance of jihad. Baker says the mosque is dominated by adherents of Takfir wal Hijra, the neo-fascist Islamic ideology influential among European operatives of al-Qaeda. However extreme its message, Finsbury Park is undeniably popular. At midday prayers on a recent Friday, Abu Hamza preached to a congregation of about...