Word: absolutism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Including the mayor, though he did have a look at the exhibition's catalog. It can't convey all the nuances Ofili intends with excrement, though Giuliani might be mollified if he knew that the artist affixes clumps of dung to just about everything, including Absolut vodka bottles and images of James Brown. It can be hard to take this sort of art seriously--it seems designed only to shock, after all--but it is easy to demonize. For his part, Ofili wasn't talking; his London gallery issued a statement saying that as a Roman Catholic, he wanted...
First of all, there is an Absolut Doonan. It is a bouteille collective of grotesque mannequins, in homage to Barney's New York's celebrity window dresser. Point is, he's made it. He's an Absolut ad. Next of all, there is an Doonan Absolut. It is a window display staging the making of vodka by scantily-clad mannequins in a gleaming factory cell. Point is, Absolut's made it. It's in a Doonan window. Everybody's happy, fame stacks on fame, cash registers go manic, and my heart is racing-take me to this high-speed, brite...
...traitor to the Motherland or anything, Boym says she prefers sake to vodka. But if it's going to be vodka, it's absolutely Absolut. "Because I like the name," explains Boym. Although when she's expecting guests or grad students she says she buys Stolichnaya, just to "live up to their expectations of Russian-ness...
...Absolut-ly smashed...
...trip to Blanchard's in Alston will do the trick for either Absolut or Stolichnaya connoisseurs. Though Boym drops a little caveat, warning that "in Russia itself there is a real vodka crisis going on at the moment, with many counterfeits at the market and rising prices...