Word: coldness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Ruscha is an LA-based artist who got his start as a humble sign-painter in the '60s, while Gursky is a much younger, German-born photographer--the two engage with at times startlingly similar themes. In his images of endless hotel interiors, meticulously arranged 99-cent stores and cold Prada showrooms, Gursky, like Ruscha, presents everyday structures as pure expressions both of the human and something more than human--as if to point out that in such places humanity will be memorialized, but also outlasted, superceded...
...daily basis. Invited by the family, the cameras followed the boy to school, to Universal Studios, on shopping outings. Cameras surround his house at all hours of the day. His status--not his welfare--became the subject of intense protests by the Cuban-American, anti-Castro community in America. Cold-hearted politicians, eager to exploit the situation for political gain, quickly joined in the fun, subsuming the Department of Immigration and Naturalization Service's ruling that Elin be returned to Cuba. The media, too, deserve approbation for easily falling prey to savvy citizens' image-fashioning...
...October, Wang chose the Swedish film Wild Strawberries (1957), and led the group's discussion of the highly-acclaimed story of a cold, aging, lonely professor who reflects on his mortality and the emptiness of his existence...
...Crimson defense was especially spectacular, holding the Big Green to an embarrassing 25.0 percent shooting in the first half. Dartmouth guard Courtney Banghart, the Big Green's usual go-to player, was so cold that she only played 22 minutes. She hit three meaningless three-pointers towards the end of the game at a point when a Dartmouth comeback was impossible...
With the Crimson up 57-38 with 8:38 left, the Harvard offense suddenly went cold. The Big Green was able to mount a 10-0 run to cut the lead to single-digits with 4:12 left. But then two shots by Johnson, a layup off a rebound and a jumper from the top of the key put Harvard back up by 13 with 3:10 left...