Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here I am, existing miserably in what seems like a sub-arctic clime. And the annoying thing is, everyone here appears to be quite pleased with the general situation...
...group plans to start a trust fund with the money raised and use it to help educate children in the Indian sub-continent...
Recent group shows, including that landmark dud, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, have been full of this stuff -- by Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon and others. Its tacky sub-pop imagery, its dazed passive-aggressive stance, its fixation on teenage weltschmerz, all entitle it to be seen as a mini-trend, linking up with the wider American cult of dumb popular therapeutics. In the 1980s, American neo-Expressionist artists shoved their excremental clods of paint at us with the self-evident pleasure that eight-year-olds take in dirty words. Patheticism is the conceptual version of this: no paint, just the words...
...total of three miles of passageways lie about six feet beneath the ground, just under the sub-basements of Harvard buildings...
...Miami is far more than just South America's shopping mall. From its Latin American headquarters in Miami, the telecommunications giant AT&T covers one-third of the world, reaching as far as South America and sub-Saharan Africa. All the major record companies have Latin offices in Miami, and dozens of Spanish-language magazines are based there. General Motors, Latin America's No. 2 automaker, moved its Latin headquarters from Sao Paulo to Miami two years ago. Disney moved its Latin American consumer-products office from Mexico City; Inter-Continental Hotels moved its base for the Americas down from...