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...From a plastic Statue of Liberty with a yellow lightbulb torch at the Brown party to a massive wall of television monitors at Clinton's, the events reflected the candidates' public images...
...toys help us avoid loneliness. A double can be pretty depressing if one roommate is away and the Lego phone isn't ringing. But we're never deserted by our three plastic frogs (Isaiah, Ezekiel and Bob) and our orange iguana, John Black...
Scenario Two: Examining the belly of John Black the Iguana, our male friend finds a surprise. "Hey! A suction cup!" he yells. Then he clumsily sticks our iguana on the TV set or computer screen. Thirty seconds later, the plastic reptile falls to the floor. Poor John...
Beuys' art deals with similar issues. Some of the more memorable Beuys pieces in the exhibition were a silk screen that read "Kunst=Kapital," ("Art=Capital"), and a plastic bag that had printed on it a chart showing Beuys' view of an ideal political system. (Beuys made up a limited edition of these bags and distributed them on the street.) Like Warhol, Beuys created directly for "the people," forcing us to think about our society...
Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem described the room as "absolutely a mess," with plastic from the light fixtures "completely melted." Since firefighters chiefly used chemical extinguishers, there was little water damage...