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...Phineas Gage, whose cranium had been preserved as an object of medical fascination. Gage was a reliable fellow, well regarded by his workmates on the Rutland and Burlington Railroad. But on Sept. 13, 1848, while using explosives to prepare Vermont's craggy terrain for track, he suffered a hideous accident. Briefly distracted, the 25-year-old foreman triggered a premature explosion that launched a pointed iron rod, thick as a broomstick, right through his skull. The rod rocketed through his face, excising his left eye, and exited skyward through the top of his head. Astoundingly, Gage was able to stand...
...worst things about them, Havel said indignantly, was their awful taste. Havel gestured around a sitting room in his presidential residence in Prague. The room was handsomely simple and bathed in morning sunlight. "This was hideous when they were here," he said. "The furniture, the curtains . . ." Bad taste, he suggested, corrupts government...
...last segment of the exhibition, "Lodestones," summarizes the artists' facetious view of breast augmentation. Two ridiculously enormous breasts with noticeably small nipples sit on a slightly elevated platform. They are unevenly shaped to exaggerate the hideous imperfection of breast augmentation. The audience visualizes a reclining woman, as the breasts lie on a bed-like platform. The artists reduce the woman to the sexual organs; her breasts now signify and define female sexuality. The issue at hand slaps the audience in the face--the Playboy cartoon of the man in the museum is put into practice. The viewer, like...
After months of provoking bewilderment and derision, the hideous "Shops by Harvard Yard" sign near Holyoke Center has finally been dismantled. Installed only this past September, the notorious monstrosity was designed to "bring some color" to the area, according to Wendy Prellwitz, a partner with the architectural firm which oversaw the project. The massive yellow and silver "sculpture" certainly brought some intense reaction...
...Certainly, the Rosensweigs has not been performed outside of this tour, as yet. But you know that sometime in this play's [future], somebody's going to be playing Gorgeous as a nightmare, it'll be a new cause for anti-Semitism in our time; it could be just hideous...