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Mar.02.2013 Desire under the microchip Would you want your clothes to become transparent whenever you are aroused, instead of the usual signals? When innovative tech art enters personal territory it becomes both edgy and a matter of some concern. Artist Daan Roosegaarde, who runs a social design lab, has diversified into...	Jan.18.2013 Love Anarchy Kang Yi stripped down to a thong while a young woman gave him love bites. Performance art is almost always controversial. What was the significance of this one staged on a podium at a Guangzhou auditorium? He said: “It's a critique of the concept of chaotic love. I hope that my art...
Dec.04.2012 Is English an island? How English is English? Will we ever know why an editor deleted words of foreign origin from the Oxford English Dictionary? Was he a racist? Or a purist? In the socio-historical context, both these words have been used interchangeably a few times. Nazism and apartheid do believe they...	Oct.15.2012 Freckles on your Chest My wife and I espied a van as we were driving. Its side shouted in red script, "We'll clean the dickens out of your home." I laughed. "I never understood that expression." I remembered my grandfather sternly telling me that he'd spank the dickens out of me if I did something again....
Jul.22.2011 A List Of American English - Not So Much Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples The Magazine's recent piece on Americanisms entering the language in the UK prompted thousands of you to e-mail examples. Some are useful, while some seem truly unnecessary, argued Matthew Engel in the article. Here are 50 of the most e-...	Sep.09.2008 PEELYWALLY There was a letter to the editor yesterday which ended with this sentence: "In a couple of generations, we have grown so peelywally." A word I had never seen, but it so totally expresses what it is that I am much taken by it. It leaves no doubt that it is negative and even - dare one...
Aug.16.2008 Wordy silence What happens when you lose words? I am at just such a loss now. And I need words most... To express helplessness.To express thanks.To express displacement.To express the momentary.To express the momentous.To express agony.To express cynicism.To express hope.To express what is outside.To express...