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...when it reflects on what might strike the unprepared visitor as the wretched pictorial ineptitude of such artists as Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley and Karen Kilimnik. (Williams can't draw at all, although her installation The Sweet and Pungent Smell of Success includes a dandy splotch of plastic vomit.) Their work, says the catalog, "deliberately renounces success and power in favor of the degraded and dysfunctional, transforming deficiencies into something positive in true Warholian fashion." Presumably if they weren't vigilant with themselves, they might turn into teensy Titians, engorged with mastery...
...found-object assemblages by the Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham -- parodic weapons made out of rusty gun parts, salvaged wood, plastic pipe -- deal with race and cultural resistance, but do so by imaginative, not merely rhetorical, means. Even Janine Antoni's sculptures -- a big cube of chocolate gnawed by the artist and a fairly repulsive mound of lard chewed up by her, flanked by a vitrine or mock reliquary displaying chocolate cases and lipsticks made from the residue of both (link between bulimia and beauty cult, get it?) -- have a sort of Monty Pythonish looniness that makes them almost endearing...
Police recovered a plastic replica of a firearm from one of two youths arrested seconds before the shooting occurred, Pasquarello said. The .38 caliber gun used in the incident had not been recovered, he said. The stun-gun is the third gun or gun-like object involved in the Friday night incident
...nitrates in the rubble was "meaningless"; nitrates are contained in exhaust fumes, paint, cleaning materials, foodstuffs and many other substances. Nonetheless, his best guess is that the explosive was in fact dynamite or something similar; the pattern of blast damage is more consistent with dynamite than with the plastic explosives often favored by terrorists. Fox also believes that "the velocity of the blast indicates that ((the explosive)) is in the dynamite family, which includes TNT and the so- called witches' brew of fertilizer and fuel oil. Most of our guys who have been around a while seem to think that...
...residents rolled large rubber trash cans center stage onto a plastic tarp. Then they tipped them over, releasing huge waves of green and red Jell...