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...major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A big show at a New York City museum can be career making. Or it can play out the way his did. Tuttle was working with the humble materials he favors to this day--wire, string, bits of Styrofoam, matches, scraps of plywood and cardboard--which he lightly assembled into strange little delicacies. Some of the works in that show, like his "rope pieces"--three-inch lengths of clothesline, fluffed a bit at the edges and attached to the wall with three nails--seemed less like works than offhand gestures...
...Styrofoam cups and cans of diet Coke are scattered across a desk dominated by a bulky radio microphone. A fleshy, pie-faced man in a short-sleeved shirt is idly dealing blackjack hands to himself while grappling with questions from his call-in radio audience. Mostly, the problems revolve around money: investments, insurance, loans, lawsuits. A man from Topeka who sells computer cables for a living wants to know how much liability coverage he should have. Bruce Williams replies, "I wouldn't walk across the street with less than a mil. Juries are crazy." A caller from Spokane wants advice...
Compared with some people, she was lucky. Yusniar, 50, was able to find them and bury them herself, before retreating to the hills where she can keep an eye on the ocean, keep it in its place, from her tent made of blue plastic sheets and Styrofoam fished out of the swamps. Neither she nor the 150 others camping with her near Banda Aceh, capital of the Indonesian province that suffered the worst destruction, are ready to come down. The relief workers haven't yet discovered them, like untold numbers of others. "The water took away everything," she says...
...Yiwu's main intersection, the Vivi Bright Wedding Photo Studio has installed fake evergreens, mounds of Styrofoam pellets masquerading as snow, and a white picket fence outside its storefront. "People want their wedding pictures in front of a Christmas tree because Christmas is modern," explains Hu Hanbang, the studio's manager. Hu plans to dress as St. Nick on Christmas Eve and give away picture frames in red envelopes of the sort that Chinese distribute over Lunar New Year...
...Somebody must have gone on a big shopping spree,” Robert M. Gogan, manager of recycling and waste for Facilities Maintenance Operations said, holding up three shoeboxes and some Styrofoam packaging...