Word: transients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recorded bells from around the world. Popp subscribes to the social theories of the late Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari and makes his art according to their ideas of rhizomes and machines. His constructions are rhizomatic: they are perpetually in the middle, ready to be reworked, almost self-consciously transient. CDs may be scratched and rebuilt ad infinitum. Popp's work is suspiciously reminiscent of the sculptor in Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night, A Traveler who builds sculptures out of books, then builds new sculptures out of the books written about his sculpture...
...community has hardly survived unscathed. One need only look across Massachusetts Avenue at the hulking 14-story monstrosity that looms over the Square, or down Magazine Street at the 10-story upscale apartment building that is helping transform what was once a stable residential community into a transient housing market. We who live and work in Central Square look at these "developments" and say "Never again!" But there are those who cannot see communities and people and human needs, those who can see only money. And they look at our community and they see big profits--millions of dollars...
...these two people who had the clearest window into Tadesse's psychology did not deem it important enough to take preventative action, how could others who merely had transient and brief contact with her be expected...
Until he discovered his love for mathematics, his attitude toward school continued to be indifferent. As a teenage refugee from Hitler, and then as a transient English boarding school student, Bott recalls shingling stables and pursuing his interest in electrical fuses more than attending classes...
Edward Wagner, who voted at Gund Hall and is an editor of the conservative Boston Mercury, cited the transient nature of student residence as a reason for low turnout...