Word: tars
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...West German pavilion is filled by a rambling installation, Unlessness, 1985-88, by Felix Droese, 38. To judge from his materials, which include wooden beams salvaged from warehouses and bridges, oxidized metal, tar paper, dusty broken glass and spindly watercolor drawings, Droese is under the spell of Joseph Beuys and, to some degree, Beuys' former student Anselm Kiefer. He draws with scissors, creating silhouette cutouts (a favorite form of German folk art) on an enormous scale. They make all manner of references to pacifism, to imprisonment and the gallows, to shadow puppetry and children's drawings, and aspire toward...
...plants and refineries belching out their pollutants under a Stygian sky, the emotive content of the image (industry as Pandemonium) is at odds with the stolid execution. Few techniques could be less suited to depicting what is fugitive and mobile, like fire and smoke, than cutting silhouettes from roofing tar. Sultan leans toward the mummified sublime. His stage effects of glare and silhouette descend, remotely, from Turner. But he is so used to thinking in terms of figure and ground that he handles the transitions between them -- the midtones, the modulations of light -- clumsily at best...
North Carolina: No matter what year it is, the Tar Heels always seem to find a dress for the party...
...Tar Heels defeated defending champion Duke, third-ranked South Carolina, and Loyola, Md., to reach the Final Four for the first time in the school's history. North Carolina's only previous NCAA appearance...
North Carolina Record: 20-4-0 Nickname: Tar Heels Conference: Atlantic Coast Top Scorers: Derek Missimo (12-5--29) David Smyth (7-8--22) Goalie: Darren Royer (.810 g.a.a, 67 saves) Last NCAA Appearance: 1968 (First round...