Word: cut
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...spare, sharp lines, big graphics and crisp edges. John loves Irving Penn, whose work looks clean and sober even when his subject was a New Guinea tribesman caked in ceremonial mud. He loves Robert Mapplethorpe, but without the whips and chains, which means the Mapplethorpe of laser-cut male torsos and tulips that loom before you like stage-lit pachyderms. These pictures were not collected by the inebriated stage floozy we used to know and love. They bear the mark of the studious Sir Elton John, a man buying things in the cold light of the morning after. Even...
Beginning a drive on his own 39-yard line, Hoffman tossed a 48-yard pass to Milanese and later connected with Jason Battung on an eight-yard score to cut the Bears' lead...
...itself a few years ago. Over the past 18 months, its stock has dropped from a high of $63 to as low as $6 (it closed up a bit, to nearly $9, on Friday); its market value has collapsed almost $40 billion to a piddling $5.6 billion. Xerox has cut its quarterly dividends 75%, to 5[cents]. As it's not currently welcome in the bond market, where its credit rating has sunk to near junk-bond status, Xerox had to tap a $7 billion revolving credit line, setting off rumors that it might be on the verge of bankruptcy...
That won't solve the company's revenue problems. Xerox has cut bundling deals with Compaq and Dell to push its fledgling line of ink-jet printers, and it is spending $200 million on its biggest advertising blitz ever. But it's having a tough time taking on H-P in the hot personal and small-business space. "They're never going to beat [them]," says Frank Pacetta, vice president of sales at SingleSource IT and a 20-year Xerox veteran...
Long before she met John Lennon, in 1966, Ono had been part of the group of New York musicians and artists who would call themselves Fluxus, pioneers of conceptual and performance art. For her 1964 Cut Piece, Ono sat onstage at Carnegie Hall while audience members came up one by one to scissor off pieces of her clothes. Her "instruction paintings" of 1961 were just typed directives like WATCH THE SUN UNTIL IT BECOMES SQUARE...