Word: thinning
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...often unintentional, side effects of conceptual art has been to make the museum-going experience unprecedentedly uncomfortable. As I walked into the gallery the first thing I saw was “Wave,” a 1964 sculpture by the artist Hans Haacke. The piece consisted of a thin rectangular slab, almost five feet long and a little less than a foot high, which was suspended from the ceiling by two thin cables. The slab was hollow and half full of water, and as its name implies, you can pull one end and let go to make it rock...
...read the story. “Isn’t The New Republic a liberal magazine?” she asked, shouting across the thin passageway that separates our rooms...
...It’s a cutthroat world with postering,” explains Ashley P. Horan ’05, ex-president and current member of On Thin Ice (OTI), the improv group. She deems the current state of affairs “a very serious situation.” Her group has been subject to potential fines and possible foul play over the issue. Once, says Horan, OTI postered “on a sandwich board that we had not reserved…someone, like in the Krokodiloes perhaps, reported us” (when questioned, David A. Eisenberg...
They knew their man had been beaten, and on his home turf. Not on foreign policy. And certainly not on substance--Kerry's arguments against Bush's policies, especially on an Iraq exit strategy, were nearly as thin as the President's defense of them. No, Kerry won the debate on Bush's favorite intangible: the appearance of strength. The President, who was so comfortable through three debates against Al Gore, appeared "annoyed," as Fox News's Brit Hume put it. Actually, it was worse than that: Bush seemed the lesser man. Kerry stood ramrod straight and preternaturally calm. Bush...
With titles like “Thin Enough to Be Asian” and “Another American Mutt,” the essays clearly cohere around questions of ethnicity and identity in America...