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...marine protozoa. An example is his big red-cedar-and-pine piece, Plenty's Boast, 1994-95. As the title suggests, it could be a cornucopia. But it also evokes a slew of other things: the flaring mouth suggests an old gramophone horn, or perhaps a flower, or a weird sucking worm; the "tail" has a distinctly sinister look, as though it carried a sting, while the fitting and fairing of the wooden staves of which it is made are impeccable...
Greil Marcus is a columnist for Salon.com and Interview and author of The Old, Weird America...
...Weird, huh? Not in the age of globalization--for that, in effect, is what the General Electric Co., United Technologies Corp. and Honeywell International Inc. have just done. Last year GE outbid UTC for Honeywell; American antitrust authorities approved the merger. But--though the game isn't over--the deal appears to have been nixed by the competition division of the European Commission in Brussels, which is headed by an Italian, Mario Monti. (To continue the Connecticut theme, Monti studied at Yale.) For more than 10 years, the commission has claimed jurisdiction over any merger between firms whose combined global...
When Joel returned, I could look over his shoulder as he surfed the Net. It was weird but oddly riveting to see his cursor click, click, click its way across my screen. But in the end, there were no busty babes, no Catholic school girls looking for trouble. He actually spent most of his time on CNN.com...
...often deteriorate over time. If you feel in need of an upgrade, take a look at the Terapin CD Video Recorder ($499). As its name implies, the device records video from your TV, VCR or camcorder and then burns it onto regular old CDs. Video on CDs? It sounds weird, but you can play them on a PC with a CD-ROM drive, or on some DVD players or on the Terapin itself...