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...cube, 30 inches on a side, sitting on the museum floor like the rest of the industrially fabricated boxes -- Donald Judd's, for instance -- that typify Minimal sculpture. But a few seconds later, how differently it reads! Every pair of holes in the mesh has a strand of gray plastic tubing threaded through it, the ends pointing inward. The whole inside of the cube is lined with these enormous glossy hairs. You can't not see it as organic: sea anemone, vagina. And it refers back culturally too, since its obvious predecessor is that icon of oral...
When you're finished, head to the Rocky Mountain chocolate factory for dessert. Just be sure to recycle any paper or plastic--Aspen is enviro-conscious to the max. And don't gawk at celebrities--it isn't polite...
Mere days, then, after finishing my Slavic 101 final, I found myself alone aboard a chairlift on the side of a cheesy hill in central Massachusetts. Rented skis clung tenuously to the plastic-and-foam boots on my feet...
...Africa. When he was a boy, his paternal grandfather, a chemical-company executive, filled his head with great tales about his work and travels throughout the dark continent in the 1920s, while his maternal grandmother, who lived in South Africa, filled his mailbox with wooden spears, shields, even plastic Zulu dolls. When Purvis turned 21, he started out on a year of thumbing across Africa, riding mostly on transport trucks and camping out alone or staying with Peace Corps volunteers. "Back then I made a point of avoiding trouble spots," says Purvis, now 34, who began his tour in Africa...
With 90 million Swatches sold to date, Handasaid he hopes the company will continue to fosterthis lighthearted attitude at its new location inHarvard Square.PhotoJeff ZarefIT'S TIME AGAIN. Those plastic watches areback, this time at a store near you--at theGalleria, in Harvard Square...