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| IMPORTANT: Bing News RSS feed has moved! Posted: 16 Sep 2010 07:37 PM PDT http://www.bing.com/newsSearch Results for fictions at Bing.comNews68010These XML results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner or for any purpose other than rendering Bing results within an RSS aggregator for your personal, non-commercial use. Any other use requires written permission from Microsoft Corporation. By using these results in any manner whatsoever, you agree to be bound by the foregoing restrictions.http://www.bing.com/s/a/rsslogo.gifhttp://www.bing.com/newshttp://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationhttp://www.berkshireeagle.com/local/ci_16037320http://www.berkshireeagle.com/local/ci_16037320One of the projects on which I'm working, and should finish sometime in about 2050, is a novel set in the 1930s. (I'm kidding about finishing it in 2050; it just seems that way sometimes.) But one of the ...2010-09-10T11:33:33ZBerkshire Eaglehttp://www.thepakistaninewspaper.com/news_detail.php?id=17756http://www.thepakistaninewspaper.com/news_detail.php?id=17756KARACHI, Sep 08: President Asif Ali Zardari has said the reports of breaching of embankments are merely fiction and only political actors are talking about breaking of dykes . " What is being said about breaking of ...2010-09-09T06:12:37ZPakistani Newspaperhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/arts/17iht-levit.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/arts/17iht-levit.htmlsome of which strike her as fictions with no more substance than the incantations of levitators. "There is a big need for us to do something because we feel powerless," she said. The project is part of a series ...2010-09-16T16:55:43ZNew York Timeshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/13/AR2010091304955.html?hpid=sec-artslivinghttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/13/AR2010091304955.html?hpid=sec-artslivingmerely finely crafted historical fictions are revealed to be the work of a mind entranced by refrains. Only the dullest of readers will be able to resist diving back into the text for a second look. Thoth,2010-09-14T04:33:37ZWashington Posthttp://www.zimbio.com/Health+and+Wellness/articles/ZiXb6T74MAy/Growing+Taller+not+Rocket+Sciencehttp://www.zimbio.com/Health+and+Wellness/articles/ZiXb6T74MAy/Growing+Taller+not+Rocket+ScienceLet us separate fact from fictions . First let me enumerate and explain the components of the human body that add to a persons' height. One most important part in your body is the spinal cord. The spinal cord is ...2010-09-13T12:20:06ZZimbiohttp://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Mafia-II-a-hacky-ode-to-mobsters-651727.phphttp://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Mafia-II-a-hacky-ode-to-mobsters-651727.phpThe reason I've never been enraptured by "The Sopranos," "Goodfellas" or other mob fictions is that the characters always seem too dumb and cruel to care about, and they say boring things that are supposed to "feel ...2010-09-10T04:02:35ZTimes Unionhttp://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_16035345http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_16035345... Story": Amir Bar-Lev's telling documentary recounts the dogged efforts of Pat Tillman's family in trying to uncover the facts (not the rousing political fictions) of his death. The NFL player turned Army Ranger ...2010-09-12T07:06:19ZDenver Posthttp://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/Column?oid=oid:1084100http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/Column?oid=oid:1084100and technology often run amok were acknowledged fictions. Now, too often, many or most of us insist that these are of truth and reality, not the imagination. But what was once fantastic is now regarded as real;2010-09-16T22:25:00ZAustin Chroniclehttp://blog.nola.com/dougelfman/2010/09/mafia_ii_is_a_hackneyed_ode_to.htmlhttp://blog.nola.com/dougelfman/2010/09/mafia_ii_is_a_hackneyed_ode_to.htmlThe reason I've never been enraptured by "The Sopranos, " "Goodfellas" or other mob fictions is that the characters always seem too dumb and cruel to care about, and they say boring things that are supposed to feel ...2010-09-03T19:55:46ZNew Orleans Times-Picayunehttp://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5733108/the_top_five_science_fiction_tabletop.htmlhttp://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5733108/the_top_five_science_fiction_tabletop.htmlsome of the most popular role playing games actually have science fictions settings. The following are the five best science fiction role playing games ever published. 5. Battletech aka Mechwarrior (FASA) - The ...2010-09-07T14:21:45ZAssociated Content This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Taking on the Börse, Abbie Hoffman-Style - New York Times Posted: 16 Sep 2010 09:55 AM PDT FRANKFURT — When stocks go up, most people agree, that is good. But what if the whole Frankfurt stock exchange parted company with Mother Earth, hovering like a U.F.O. above the adjacent plaza and causing patrons at the Starbucks across the street to spill their lattes? To the Swedish artist Annika Lundgren, the idea is no more preposterous than what goes on in financial circles. "For us, not being part of the Börse world, it seems like a weird ritual," Ms. Lundgren said of the stock exchange, which she will attempt to levitate on Tuesday with the help of kinetic energy collected from supporters on the Internet. "I don't see the ambition to levitate the building as less absurd than what is going on inside the building." "The Stock Is Rising," as Ms. Lundgren calls the project, is part of a series of public art events organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle, a leading Frankfurt gallery and art center. As it happens, one of the Schirn's main corporate sponsors is Deutsche Börse, the company that operates the exchange. A spokeswoman for Deutsche Börse, who had not heard about the plans to detach the building from the underlying real estate, said the company would not comment. Ms. Lundgren, 45, is drawing her inspiration from another famous attempted levitation. In 1967 a group of protesters led by Abbie Hoffman, founder of the Yippie party, surrounded the Pentagon in Washington and tried to make it rise in the air, spin around and turn orange. The radical antiwar leader and his band, which included the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, did not achieve their aim of elevating the nerve center of the U.S. military. But Mr. Hoffman, who died in 1989, did create an enduring legend. "I found it to be such a fantastic combination of poetry and politics," Ms. Lundgren said. Mr. Hoffman would probably approve of her project. He once scattered dollar bills on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Ms. Lundgren, who lives in Berlin, actually laid eyes on the Frankfurt exchange building for the first time on Sept. 9, a day after attending the opening at the Schirn of "Playing the City 2," as the series of public art projects is called. The building, a modern structure which preserves its original pillared façade, was smaller than she expected, a plus for the levitation attempt. "It felt strangely do-able," Ms. Lundgren said as she sipped a latte and puffed on a cigarette at the Starbucks nearby. "I was thinking that the building is not that big. How hard can it be?" Unlike the 1967 attempted Pentagon levitation, part of a protest against the war in Vietnam, Ms. Lundgren says that her attempt to make the stock exchange hover is not confrontational. "This is not an aggressive protest in any way. It's going to be very quiet and focused," she said. "It can be interpreted as giving them a hand, getting rid of evil spirits." Indeed, Ms. Lundgren wants the event to be meditative, in contrast to the frantic pace of exchange trading. She plans to display a tally of how many people participate via the project Web site, www.stockisrising.com. But she will use an old-fashioned manual scoreboard, the kind once found at sporting events, in deliberate contrast to the deluge of electronic trading data. Already, visitors can make a donation of kinetic energy by clicking on a circle on the Web site and holding down the mouse button. A graph tracks "accumulated levitation units" alongside the German blue-chip DAX Index. The levitation index, in fact, was recently outperforming the DAX. Although not trying to provoke a standoff between traders and levitators, Ms. Lundgren said she intended to make a political statement. The event is a way of channeling the helplessness ordinary people feel at being at the mercy of the finance world. It is also a comment on the financial instruments that caused the global crisis, some of which strike her as fictions with no more substance than the incantations of levitators. "There is a big need for us to do something because we feel powerless," she said. The project is part of a series of public actions staged by the Schirn which began Sept. 8 and will conclude on Sept. 26. Other artists are planning subway singalongs, or trying to get passersby to spontaneously fill-in missing dialogue from a play recited by an actor standing outside a Frankfurt theater. And the Russian artist Leonid Tishkov has constructed a two-meter, or 6.5-foot, replica of the Moon, which lights up and which people can borrow. He is mapping where the Moon spends the night. Ms. Lundgren's project is probably the most overtly topical. "I hadn't asked her to do something special for Frankfurt," said Matthias Ulrich, the Schirn curator who oversees Playing the City. "But after a few days she came back with this slightly absurd idea. The public, the community, the Web — a lot of elements come together that I liked a lot." Ms. Lundgren is still working out how to stage the event, but she said she hopes for a good turnout and has been sending e-mails to potential supporters and handing out pamphlets. A certain crowd is guaranteed. The exchange building is centrally located, next to a busy pedestrian shopping street and amid numerous cafes. The chances that the action will interfere with trading are slim, even if the building does rise a few meters. Although some floor trading continues in the exchange building, the overwhelming majority of transactions take place on electronic platforms in servers a good distance away. The corporate headquarters of Deutsche Börse is in a nondescript office park outside the city center. Ms. Lundgren's work has often examined what she calls the relocation of power. Her "Power and Illumination Project" has hooked generators to exercise bikes in fitness centers in cities such as Utrecht, in the Netherlands, and Berlin. The electricity is used to illuminate exhibits on energy, the idea being to convert physical energy to knowledge. She has also engaged the financial world before, once using the format of a corporate presentation to spin a tale of a stock broker trying to deal with his role in the system. To the inevitable question — Does she really think she can make the stock exchange lift off? — Ms. Lundgren replied, "It's about faith creating reality." "There are still people who swear they saw the Pentagon hover in 1967," she said. "We'll see how it goes." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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