Word: writ
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earliest pieces in the show, from 1954 to 1957, are terrible--Beat coffee-shop art writ large. What enabled him to become an artist in the 1960s was junk, scraps, the offcuts and excreta of America, which he combined first into small hybrid pieces and then into whole rooms and environments. As a hunter-gatherer, a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, he was a whiz. He put in everything, including the kitchen sink--no, make that the whole kitchen. Some of the catalog entries for this show, listing title, date and materials, sound more like small towns than works...
...Congress mandated that the Department of Energy begin to accept nuclear waste from commercial reactors in 1998. Consumers started paying into a federal fund meant to finance a storage site. Though the Energy Department has collected $8.3 billion, no facility has been completed; in a case of NIMBY writ large, no state wants such a site in its backyard. As the nation's stockpile of spent fuel reached 30,000 tons, activists seized the issue as a way to hobble the industry, and the Energy Department announced that a permanent facility planned for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, wouldn't be ready...
President Rudenstine and the Harvard administration should give the Wiesenthal Center's letter a serious response. Administrators must confront a classic university dilemma, writ large for the information age: academic institutions are committed to free speech and expression, but new information technologies spread damaging forms of speech as never before...
Mens sana in corpore sano--a sound mind, a sound body--once formed the simple ancient virtue of sport. But in time too much of athletic competition has come to be writ in mythic proportions. Sports heroes loom larger than life. A sense of god-like immortality accompanies the "thrill" of victory. The divide between life's reality and the fantasy of Elysian fields is being trampled by the universalized pursuit of fame and glory through athletics...
...something they hate but to do something they love and do it better. Jealousy can be hard for moms and dads to deal with; imagine spending a lifetime striving to outdo one's peers only to be shown up by one's progeny. Such humiliations can be writ small--a six-year-old who keeps beating Dad in Ping-Pong--or large--a generation that, enviably, manages to look more rebellious than...