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...prey as a belligerent correlative for a universally suppressed anxiety. A Thousand Years is a large glass box in which real maggots hatch into flies that appear to feed on blood (actually red sugar water) from a severed cow's head, then are killed by an electric bug zapper - the tragic cycle of life and death played as low farce by the lowest orders. And there's something both hilarious and chilling about his Lullaby series, steel and mirror-glass medicine cabinets in which colorful pills are meticulously organized into glittering reliquaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damien Hirst: Bad Boy Makes Good | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...mean the number is disconnected and hang up. A downside of this device, though, is that it might cause your mom to do the same. Another problem: some telemarketers have either changed their software or bought new dialers that stay on the line even when they hear the zapper's tones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop Calling Us | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...PAIN ZAPPER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions: Best Of The Rest | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...longtime pacifist, I have always deplored our tendency to dehumanize and demonize our adversaries. Not this time. By savagely slaughtering thousands of innocent people, the terrorists have forfeited their membership in civilized society and deserve the same regard a bug zapper shows a swarm of stinging insects. RICK ANSORGE Macungie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 15, 2001 | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...indoor, private use," he said, noting that theater and restaurant owners fell into this category. "We don't claim they should be used outside, in public, to interfere with legitimate people using cell phones." So you don't have plans to make a smaller, personal-use cell-phone zapper? I asked him. No, he said. Oh, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell-Phone Zapper | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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