Word: rugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't really grasp relativity, prompting Arthur Eddington's celebrated wisecrack (asked if it was true that only three people understood relativity, the witty British astrophysicist paused, then said, "I am trying to think who the third person is"). To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed...
...Rothenberg says she chooses the scale of her canvases partly according to how much energy she has. This certainly seems true: the energy that gives her larger pieces such presence peters out in smaller pieces like Ghost Rug (1994), where eyes float mysteriously above a ground the toxic pink of Valentine's Day cupcake frosting...
...these are the exact qualities of the two most successful modern pieces in the exhibition. Jorge Pardo's untitled tapestry, one of three industrially fabricated in a Dutch factory, is by strict definitions a rug. Pardo also commissioned tapestries from a workshop in Mexico in where the weaving was done by hand but both techniques are given equal artistic creedance...
Beatty expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of activism around these problems from the Democratic Party and asked, "Do we belong to a party that sweeps this stuff under the rug...
...rated passer in the American Football Conference? That would be Seattle's own Mr. John Kitna, which if nothing else is proof that statistics do in fact lie like a rug, and while we might not want Bret Favre next to us in a foxhole (all those tears are hard on morale), he can quarterback our team anytime. Still, the Pack is looking more and more like the Green Bay teams of old (and we don't mean that in a good way), so count on Favre for anther slim win, and take the Seahawks and five and a half...