Word: alien
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe the ribbing is a little unfair. Despite NASA's can-do public attitude, expecting a perfect record when you're sending machines across 50 million miles of empty space to an alien world would be naive. But trying to do it in a slapdash fashion doesn't help. "There's a difference," grouses John Pike, a space expert with the Federation of American Scientists, "between cheap and cheaper...
...There's a personality factor too. In the previous show, David Horn proceeded to play a flute line that he plays frequently, and Shawn proceeded to attack him with his "alien simulator"--his pitch shifter--and that's something you can't get across unless you're there...
...stretch of overpass in the invisible industrial outlands, unmarked, the Brickbottom Gallery is in a most unlikely location. But, in a building where more than 150 artists live and work, the gallery is self-sufficient, needing no urban foot-traffic. The exhibition space shows artists both resident and alien, often in a salon format...
...Fentrice Driskell's room is a comfortable Mather single: ginger snaps box, lava lamp, empty Chopin imported vodka bottle. Fendrice sat under a Tupac poster and he stared down at her in his gold jewelry and tattoos. She answered questions about cheerleading, thugs, alien invasions, and being a super hero...
...Well, I'd put on my tiger cape. I'd turn into Fentrice Woman, and I'd kick some alien butt...