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This gap -- more like a canyon -- between the Art World and the Real World seems particularly sad in Holzer's case, since the one thing she evidently yearns to do is make contact with a wide public by showering it with improving mottos, printed on posters, zapping from light-emitting diode boxes, and even carved in stone: EATING TOO MUCH IS CRIMINAL, for instance, or ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. In the late '70s, after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Holzer was smitten by an insight. To subvert the slow and, natch, "elitist...
...theorized that kids were filching the things in tribute to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who use manhole covers for shields. The least plausible idea was that someone was stealing the covers for money. After all, a manhole cover only commands at most $6 as scrap. Yet when the case was solved last week, that theory proved right. Most of the missing covers turned up at a scrap-metals yard, and cops collared two culprits, dubbed the Manhole Men, with a pickup truck loaded with more manhole covers. They were charged with grand theft and receiving stolen property...
...Eastern Europe actually wanted German investment and that this "did not necessarily equate to subjugation." The Powell memo alleged that "abiding" characteristics of the Germans, "in alphabetical order," included "aggressiveness, assertiveness, bullying, egotism, inferiority complex, sentimentality." The concept of permanent national character is generally fatuous, and in this case Powell's words make a poor fit for Kohl, the biggest German of them all. Kohl can be intimidating because of his size (6 ft. 3 in.) and might sometimes appear aggressive, but no more so than Thatcher. If he now looks assertive, it is only in contrast to the penitent...
...case does not involve the overt messages of the songs, which state judge Jerry Carr Whitehead has ruled are protected by the First Amendment. At issue, instead, is the alleged use by the band and its corporate producer, CBS Records, of secretly encoded subliminal messages that are received only by the unconscious mind. Visual subliminal images -- for example, flashing the word buy at speeds too great to be observed by the conscious mind -- have been tested in video advertising for decades, although researchers debate whether they have any proven persuasive effect. The notion that auditory images of this type could...
...media professionals believe that subliminal messages are widely used in popular entertainment, but many religious Fundamentalists contend that they are common and that they exert an almost hypnotic power. This theory was popularized by author Wilson Bryan Key, a witness for the two families. In the case of the Judas Priest album Stained Class, Key claims to find the repeated injunction "Do it," which he interprets as encouraging suicide. Attorneys for the plaintiffs also maintain that satanic incantations are revealed when the music is played backward. Testifying last week, Vance's mother, a born- again Christian, described...