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  1. Newsgroups: seattle.general
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ole!ssc!markz
  3. From: markz@ssc.com (Mark Zenier)
  4. Subject: Re: Your favorite public art 
  5. Organization: SSC, Inc.,  Seattle, WA
  6. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:46:04 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.184604.3741@ssc.com>
  8. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
  9. References: <MS-C.722068924.377401575.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
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  12. Mark Crispin (mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU) wrote:
  13. :  They're too good to be government-funded art.  When I think of
  14. : government art, I think of that gigantic bidet that passes for a `fountain'
  15. : downtown or the piles of rusting scrap metal (a.k.a. ``significant
  16. : sculpture'') dumped on the lawns of certain public buildings.
  17.  
  18. You left out the whole genre of "Faux Dinosaur Turd", the best?
  19. example of which was to the North of the West entrance of the
  20. Downtown Library.  I'd rather have the Dead Viking.
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  22. Mark Zenier  markz@ssc.wa.com  
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