This 102nd edition of the Rose Bowl, the so-called Granddaddy of Them All, shaped up as a bowl that your granddaddy would recognize.
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The granddaddy of surreal, science fiction television anthologies is returning.
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I was smoking the Granddaddy Purple since five this morning.
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Today it holds up as a granddaddy of the bloodsucker genre.
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"We're talking about the granddaddy of all music festivals," he said.
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Speaking of the Emperor, what did you think of Granddaddy Palpatine?
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You might call Phil Tippett the granddaddy of special effects for cinema.
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"Granddaddy didn't believe in people lying around doing nothing," Heather Coggins said.
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"It's overwhelming,'' he said, ''to see the love that my granddaddy has."
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Rio de Janeiro is home to the granddaddy of all Carnival celebrations.
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His granddaddy was a gold miner, so the art's got family roots.
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It's kind of the granddaddy of this new crop of creepy fictional podcasts.
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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is the granddaddy of federal environmental law.
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One of the most popular alternatives to green is purple—think Granddaddy Purple.
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We make sure to turn on Glympse so Granddaddy can watch our trip.
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Launched in 22013, World of Warcraft is the granddaddy of the modern MMO.
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While eBay is the granddaddy of online selling, it has plenty of competition.
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Time Out Beijing, a listings magazine, calls it the "granddaddy of Beijing's gay clubs".
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You could say the 1992 Rio Earth Summit was the granddaddy of these conferences.
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This is it, the granddaddy of them all, the ultimate stoner metal album: Dopesmoker.
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The final shopping stop is the granddaddy of high-design, handmade pieces, Spin Ceramics.
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With almost seven decades of experience, Putney is the granddaddy of educational student travel.
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Even today, that franchise is remembered as "curiously modern"—the granddaddy of meta comedy.
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That's because the Moog synthesizer is by all accounts the granddaddy of modern electronic music.
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We look at the granddaddy of modern conspiracy speculation: Who killed President John F. Kennedy?
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My granddaddy said when I started walking, I just jumped up and went a-running.
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Granddaddy texts me while we're there and says Glympse shows lots of twists and turns.
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Mama told me about my great granddaddy, Herbert Gilmore, when I was a little girl.
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" In his guidebook, McLean calls Stairs Gulch the "great granddaddy of Big Cottonwood Canyon's slide paths.
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Calling it "the granddaddy" of its sector, Cramer expected a strong quarter from the industry leader.
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We lay down to go to sleep and I almost forgot to send Granddaddy his message.
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This time it was the print press -- the granddaddy of them all -- the august New York Times.
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Widely considered the granddaddy of American political scandals, the scheme wasfairly tame and straightforward by today's standards.
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Puppy Bowl In its 14th year, Puppy Bowl is the granddaddy of animal-themed Super Bowl celebrations.
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Barcelona will also be the site of more news on the granddaddy of all connectivity developments — 5G.
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The self-proclaimed "granddaddy" of Austin venues, however, which no one would dispute, is the Continental Club.
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Other than Uber, the hypersuccessful granddaddy of on-demand apps, many of these companies have come under stress.
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Hillsong, the Australian granddaddy of them all, arrived in Los Angeles in 22015, taking over a theater downtown.
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"I spoke with AJ's family, his grandma and granddaddy, they were very humbled and very appreciative," he said.
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The assassination is "the granddaddy of all conspiracy theories" in the American psyche, as our writer put it.
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Kalkbrenner retreated to a backstage room and got to work rolling a joint of Granddaddy Purple and mentholated tobacco.
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But the granddaddy of them all has to be "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" by Tony Bennett.
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Jackson's credited for dubbing the Rose Bowl "The Granddaddy of Them All" and Michigan's football stadium, "The Big House".
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The granddaddy of get-it-while-it's-hot retailing is reviving its frenzy-inducing Design for All marketing campaign.
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The granddaddy of get-it-while-it's-hot retailing is reviving its frenzy-inducing Design for All marketing campaign.
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Whenever I asked why we didn't just stay gone, why we didn't just move in permanently with Grandma and Granddaddy?
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ACA architects claim that the law prevents the Board from rationing health care—the granddaddy of all cost-cutting measures.
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There's the granddaddy, which is Matt Drudge, still around, InfoWars, Gateway Pundit, who else do you guys pay attention to?
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The granddaddy of all reforms is still the Protestant Reformation, that long assault on the luxuries of the Catholic Church.
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Politico reports that the Clinton campaign is wooing Condoleezza Rice, James Baker, George Shultz, and Kissinger, the granddaddy of them all.
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There were no questions about their classification as independent contractors, a practice popularized by Uber, the granddaddy of the gig economy.
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The great granddaddy of all vaguely sinister private corporations, the VOC had both international reach and shadowy yet omnipresent domestic power.
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And of course, in the annals of phony deals we must mention the granddaddy of them all, the North Korea deal.
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Given the stakes of performing at WWE's self-proclaimed "Granddaddy of Them All," it's likely someone will get hurt for real.
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She also says they're enjoying following along on my trip so I guess Granddaddy is sharing my daily updates with her.
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Farish was killed in it; great-great-granddaddy Arthur later married his brother's widow, making that day "my reason for being here".
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Weight Lifting: Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia won the granddaddy event by lifting 473 kilograms in the combined snatch and clean and jerk.
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And the granddaddy of disruption in today's economy is still the retail sector, buffeted by the sustained rise of e-commerce, he said.
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It was a combination of things that gave it away: her genuine granddaddy-sized Louis Vuitton handbag, her expensive clothes, and her feet.
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On some level, the best antihero dramas play off one of the key ideas that animated The Sopranos, the granddaddy of them all.
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"From the chubbiness, from the eyebrows, to the bald head to ... his mannerisms, he reminded me of granddaddy," she told Coker and Broder.
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CreditCreditJoshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times Tina Washington can't remember being told that white men lynched her granddaddy back in 1935.
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About 20 E.T.F.s hold physical gold, including the granddaddy of funds, the SPDR Gold Trust, established in 2004 by State Street Global Advisors.
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She grew up conversing with spirits, and today drives a car inhabited by the phantom of her granddaddy, who willed it to her.
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The granddaddy of gritty, gruesome 90s noirs centers Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as detectives on the hunt for an Old Testament-inspired sadist.
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And then the granddaddy of them all: A 2016 review of 1,277 studies found that coffee's cumulative health benefits outweigh the risks, no question.
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Riley told the media that while he's open to further coaching opportunities, he's "looking forward to being a granddaddy" after decades in the game.
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Meet the granddaddy of the animal kingdom, including humans: Ikaria wariootia, a humble worm-like creature that lived an estimated 555 million years ago.
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In the past week, the SPDR S&P 500 — the granddaddy of the ETF world — has experienced $23 billion in outflows, according to XTF.com.
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The Rose Bowl — often known as "The Granddaddy of Them All" — is the oldest and most storied bowl game in all of college football.
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Researchers are warning that there is an security vulnerability affecting two email security protocols: S/MIME and the granddaddy of all email encryption standards, PGP.
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"Sometimes, my granddaddy would go to a friend's house and they would get together and play the harmonica and jam," Ms. Watkins told Living Blues.
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At the other end of the spectrum is the granddaddy of toaster ovens — the $400 Breville Smart Oven Air that can roast a whole turkey.
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In perhaps the most crippling blow, Huelskamp lost the endorsement of the state affiliate of the American Farm Bureau, the granddaddy of all agriculture groups.
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The granddaddy of index mutual funds, Vanguard 500 Index fund (VFINX), which also tracks the S&P 500, also had no capital gains distributions last year.
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The firm dates back to the 1023s, when Pratt & Whitney was part of the granddaddy of aerospace monopolies with Boeing and what would become United Airlines.
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Hampton, known as the "granddaddy of the jam scene," collapsed on stage while rocking out Monday night during a concert held in his honor in Atlanta.
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Bruce Hampton -- known as the Granddaddy of the Jam Scene -- was in the middle of an encore -- "Turn on Your Lovelight" -- when he suddenly collapsed onstage.
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There is a vacuum forming in the "dumb little Segways for your feet" category so enter the granddaddy of two-wheeled locomotion, Segway, and their MiniPRO.
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Park Slope is the granddaddy of brownstone renewal, whose rent hikes are sending many people to previously raced-through neighborhoods like Sunset Park and Bay Ridge.
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I was wondering why, but then it came to pass that her husband was a police officer and his granddaddy was the sheriff, so I understood.
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That city was once the granddaddy of Mexican tourist destinations, but now is one of country's deadliest areas and no longer a mecca for international travelers.
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And the granddaddy of all perhaps premature, but still relatively safe, brash moves has been his decision to release his 11 top choices for Supreme Court justice.
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Although it was "extremely serious," Apple's dystopian "1984" ad is still the "granddaddy" of all Super Bowl commercials more than three decades after it aired, he said.
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The granddaddy of those failed fixes was the law that Democrats like Warren championed and still support: the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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Hooters, the granddaddy of the American "breastaurant," has steadfastly stuck to the formula that led to its success in the 1980s, right down to its iconic uniform.
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One of Dick Morse's grandsons is an aeronautical engineer, something he says is a direct result of hearing his granddaddy talk about his flying days in the war.
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The 1962 Shelby 260 Cobra "CSX 2000" is the granddaddy of American sports cars, personally stuffed with a V8 gearbox by legendary designer and driver Carroll Shelby himself.
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The 29.9 Shelby 19337 Cobra "CSX 257" is the granddaddy of American sports cars, personally stuffed with a V29.7 gearbox by legendary designer and driver Carroll Shelby himself.
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The voice held its own against Sam Elliott's own iconic rasp (the granddaddy of goose-bump-inducing dialogue), which is a grand feat not many voices can achieve.
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Perhaps the granddaddy of these festivals, Pliny the Younger Day, sees Russian River Brewing in Sonoma County release its famed Pliny the Elder, an imperial India Pale Ale.
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Our comedy and movie critics weighed in on the legacy of George Romero, the horror movie director and granddaddy of the zombie-flick genre who died on Monday.
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The Black Party, the granddaddy of all gay "circuit" parties, is an annual rite-of-spring bacchanal that turns 38 this year, a remarkable run by any standard.
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The granddaddy of the good person shows — and arguably the best one — is NBC's The Good Place, a sitcom that is also a series of debates about ethical philosophy.
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In the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008, complexity didn't seem to bother a lot of (or enough) investors who bought the granddaddy of indecipherable alts — derivatives.
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None was more connoisseur-driven than the European Fine Art Fair, or Tefaf, the granddaddy of old masters events, held every March in the southern tip of the Netherlands.
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We go back in and pack up our stuff and ready the house so we can leave tomorrow morning and sit down to send Granddaddy his message and photos.
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Welcome to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where the Oregon Ducks took on the Wisconsin Badgers in the 106th rendition of "The Granddaddy of Them All" Wednesday evening.
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If hyperloop granddaddy Elon Musk has taught us anything, it's that deadlines are just a funny sequence of numbers that we drop in earnings calls but don't actually mean anything.
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Bruce Hampton, a singer, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader known for his energetic, eccentric style and widely regarded as the granddaddy of the jam-band scene, died on Monday in Atlanta.
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"Without question, this is the granddaddy of all Marvel Comics, without which we would not have the characters and stories we enjoy in today's comics and feature films," Jaster added.
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In the modern era, the granddaddy of such books is Orwell's "1984," a novel sentenced forever by its prognosticatory title to high school reading lists across the English-speaking world.
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Dekle's granddaddy was a sheriff in Union County in northern Florida back around the time of World War I, when the state's executions were still carried out at the local level.
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But let's bring it back, way back, to the granddaddy of the high-end SUV market — Land Rover, which just announced a $244,500 model customized by British gun manufacturer Holland & Holland.
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None of the features it claims to posses would require new technology, but the Zenta would be the granddaddy of wearables — taking from others to build a beast of a device.
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"The Dungeons & Dragons crew is letting Pat and I open a Pandora's Box of insane adventure material and iconic creatures from the granddaddy of all tabletop role-playing games," said Zub.
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EBay, the granddaddy of online resale that launched in 22017, draws 303 million active buyers globally, and has made it possible for millions to earn major money selling on its site.
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Rachel Zoe, who sells her own festival-inflected fashions on her website, some with subtle references to Woodstock, remarked that today the granddaddy of festivals lives on primarily as a fantasy.
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And finally, the granddaddy of all sins, is the strange notion that conventional weapons can be prudently substituted for nuclear arms, allowing us to reduce even further our deployed nuclear forces.
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The 1967 Camaro, 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, 1977 Ford F-150, 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle and the-granddaddy-of-them-all 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air filled out the map with one state each.
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With the likes of Daimler, Volvo, and Uber working on self-driving trucks, it's no surprise that the granddaddy of autonomous vehicles, Waymo, is getting in on the big-rig action too.
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In an extreme example, a single copy of the June 1938 edition of "Action Comics 19993," considered the granddaddy of the superhero genre, sold for more than $2 million back in 2011.
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But that explanation just doesn't cut it when you look at some of the salaries and who's paying them: And then there's the granddaddy of them all: College football head coach salaries.
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If your holiday spirits sink at the thought of battling crowds on Wednesday evening to attend the granddaddy of all Christmas tree lightings — Rockefeller Center's — your family can find electrifying moments elsewhere.
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Many of these strains, like Pineapple Express or Blue Dream, will sound familiar, but is the Granddaddy Purp you buy in Colorado the same stuff your guy in California is selling you?
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Indeed, some of the very best American films — including the granddaddy of them all, Citizen Kane — are fundamentally about trying to solve the aching emptiness at the center of some white guy's soul.
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"Hide yo' kids" In what just might be the granddaddy of all local news witness videos, Antoine Dodson inspired the remixes that defined a generation or just defined a generation of Internet stars.
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Fan conventions have long been a prized source of revenue for publishers, the granddaddy hosted by RT Book Reviews, a magazine for and by romance-book lovers who want to connect with authors.
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These days, the artist, who died in 19933 at age 75, is often called the Granddaddy of Goth, celebrated as much for his eccentric persona as his meticulously crosshatched pen-and-ink drawings.
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As a correspondent on NBC's Dateline for 25 years, Morrison, with his sweep of soft white hair, his cashmere and corduroy style, and his unhurried delivery, has become the granddaddy of true crime.
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The granddaddy of those tax breaks is the exclusion of employer contributions for health-care insurance, which in fiscal 6900 is projected by the Tax Policy Center to cost the government $2628 billion.
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Once you have this certification, you might qualify for more lucrative senior management positions like Chief Information Security Officer (CISO.) Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Now it's time for the granddaddy of security certifications.
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"You don't have to be a very good reporter when somebody on the phone starts telling you about the voodoo preacher their granddaddy defended and then defended the man who shot him," Cep says.
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They concluded that the granddaddy of Northeast winter storms was a three-day March 1993 blizzard that dumped more than 20 inches of snow in major parts of nine states, from North Carolina to Vermont.
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The granddaddy of these ventures may be the collection at AT&T Stadium, home since 2009 of the Dallas Cowboys, which includes site-specific commissions from international art stars like Jenny Holzer and Olafur Eliasson.
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At the Goodman Theater, the granddaddy of the Chicago scene, I could also have caught "We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time" by David Cale, had I not run out of time myself.
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The sale at Sotheby's, the granddaddy of auctioneers, most likely signals the beginning of a more serious interest from Western museums, which may finally start to consider such work worthy of inclusion in their permanent collections.
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"I have seen these run-ups and drops in bitcoin and I did not even flinch," said 34-year old Hayner, who started mining bitcoins in 2009 when the granddaddy of all cryptocurrencies was worth nothing.
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Yes, that's right: The panel's ruling in In re Hyundai and Kia Fuel Economy Litigation is so problematic that has pushed the granddaddy of tort reform groups into arguing in favor of nationwide class action settlements.
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Hollywood, worried that the American public was still weary from the oversaturation of O. J. Simpson coverage, did all it could to stay clear of the murders, the highway chase and the granddaddy of all celebrity trials.
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In recent years, we've seen the deaths (and to varying degrees, the troubled rebirths) of the likes of Newsweek, The Denver Post, LA Weekly, Playboy and just last month, the granddaddy of all sports media, Sports Illustrated.
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Musk fans can knock the granddaddy of American spaceflight all they want, but NASA has the track record of successful Martian orbiters and landers to back up its vision to send astronauts to orbit Mars by the 2030s.
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When Mitchell, cuckolded and left to raise a black man's child as his own, realizes that his suffering is a kind of reprisal, his whiny "Why me?" is parried irrefutably by his fellow-father: Why Cooley's great-granddaddy?
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In "The Undoing Project," Mr. Lewis has found the granddaddy of all stories about counterintuition, because Dr. Kahneman and Dr. Tversky did some of the most definitive research about just how majestically, fantastically unreliable our intuition can be.
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Though Dylan, the granddaddy of 'em all, just lets his music do the talking as per usual, Young got in some aw-shucks zingers while Waters took a more brooding, contemptuous — and pointedly controversial — approach to his pet issues.
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The killing generated the granddaddy of all conspiracy theories, but don't expect any stunning revelations: "We're not going to find some secret memo from J. Edgar Hoover drawing out the escape path for Lee Harvey Oswald," one specialist said.
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Of course, the granddaddy of controversial "South Park"episodes is the 200th episode which was designed to be a clip show filled with the show's greatest controversies that ended with a depiction of Muhammad and a discussion of terrorism.
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Tenets of this subculture include the exaltation of sexuality, participatory art and "radical self-expression", a term popularised by Burning Man, the granddaddy transformational festival, which opens its annual pow-wow to some 70,000 in the Nevada desert on August 26th.
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And I realized there was nowhere I would rather be, than with my family on this beach, standing a few feet from the tree that had greeted my great-great-great-great-great granddaddy when he first landed from America.
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One force behind the rise of these fairs was Shannon Michael Cane, an exuberant, heavily tattooed Australian expatriate and autodidact book aficionado who in 2013 took over the Printed Matter book fair in New York, the granddaddy of such gatherings.
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It is one of the great scenes in tennis — all the better this Sunday with a powder-blue Tiepolo sky for a backdrop — and it doubles as a scene setter for the second week of the granddaddy of all tennis tournaments.
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Lacking the same arsenal of big guns as some other entertainment companies launching streaming services, CBS has been very shrewd about leveraging the genre-friendly titles that it controls, from "Star Trek: Discovery" to this, the granddaddy of all anthology series.
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The granddaddy of them all, as the Rose Bowl became known after its creation in 1902, was the only postseason game until the 1930s, and it was explicitly conceived as an "Atlantic-Pacific coast game," as one contemporaneous article put it.
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"My great granddaddy was Wiradjuri / My father came here from the Philippine / It's where I live, it's where I wanna be / But you make me feel so ill at ease," she sings, anger and pain coursing through her patinaed voice.
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The granddaddy of "surreal-ity TV" is back, as "Twin Peaks" returned with a two-hour premiere that laid the groundwork for this 18-episode revival -- again defined more by director David Lynch's trademark eccentricities than its tangled web of a plot.
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"False Flag" comes on the heels of the excellent "Fauda" on Netflix, and the casting of Ishai Golan as the bewildered chemist, Ben, provides a link to the granddaddy of the genre, the great "Prisoners of War" (adapted in America as "Homeland").
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Retro Report, a series of video documentaries that revisit major news stories of the past to demonstrate their continued relevance, looks at the present state of dietrologia all'americana by re-examining the granddaddy of modern conspiracy speculation: Who killed President John F. Kennedy?
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That feeling culminated for me when Lee interrupted Kenny's one-on-one time with Rachel because he had something "really important" to tell her — uh, that his granddaddy had cancer once and gave him a knife that he then brought on set with him.
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Then a few months ago, Mr. Pisark, knowing only that she was a Madison Square aficionado, sent her a scan of a random card that just happened to contain all necessary documentary evidence to prove that it portrayed that granddaddy of all public holiday trees.
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Trump's tariffs While a "granddaddy" trade deal with China has yet to take final shape, the President's repeated threats to close the US border have introduced a new twist in a separate trade deal with the nation's northern and southern neighbors, Canada and Mexico.
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Speaking of the granddaddy of Purge movies… John Carpenter's 1981 thriller about the far-distant future of 1997 hits some of the same notes as the Purge films, but it's surprisingly soulful about its swaggering outlaw hero (Kurt Russell), who doesn't actually want to save the day.
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While their appearances in the "Granddaddy" of all bowl games in the previous decade were all about flashy offenses, these seventh-ranked Ducks used grit and timely domination at the lines of scrimmage to defeat No. 11 Wisconsin 28-27 in the Rose Bowl on Wednesday.
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The wedding crasher, rural edition Stan was already at the Legion, since it's the only place in 20 miles you can get a damn drink, and he might as well join the party because he knows somebody's granddaddy and I think he was in one of the wars?
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It's a 1969 song by the legendary granddaddy of Christian rock, Larry Norman, and it's been re-recorded by everyone from the Christian rap/rock group DC Talk in the 1990s to Jordin Sparks, who covered the song for the truly bad 2014 Left Behind reboot starring Nicolas Cage.
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Stoner Superlative: Most likely to feed their mom a weed cookie Best Strain: Granddaddy Purple (merry Indica) Worst Strain: Jack the Ripper (intense Sativa) Best Way to Get High: A homemade edible Best High Activity: Build a bonfire and smoke up with their closest friends Recommended Product: Levo Oil Infuser
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This 70-year showcase of Magnum Photos, the granddaddy of photojournalism agencies — whose founders included Capa's brother Robert, who shot the much-debated image of a dying Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War — turns back to printed images and published books, made by professionals shooting with high-end kits.
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Long before many of its contemporaries were scoring historic drama with dissonant music, Peaky Blinders smashed rock songs onto scenes of the English working class and introduced every episode with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand" (Murphy refers to Cave as the "granddaddy" of the show's music).
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Lines like "My great great granddaddy used to be a slave" and "I'm always on the way to get the money, don't ever ask me where I'm going" provide a wide but comprehensive view of Dolph's day-to-day mindset and give insight into how he became the person he is.
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But the granddaddy of the Rosenstein soap opera played out these past few days, right as the DOJ was making a last-ditch effort to block Trump's request to declassify documents that would show whether Rosenstein himself misled the nation's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court about weaknesses in the Russia evidence.
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" The granddaddy of such podcasts is "Coast to Coast AM." On these fine shows I've learned about the Bell Witch, an entity that terrorized a family in Tennessee in the 1800s; Disappearing Object Phenomenon, which explains why common objects tend to go missing in one's home; and, of course, the "Nazi Werewolf Organization.
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Of course, there's the granddaddy of all leaks: Daniel Ellsberg's release of most of the immense Pentagon Papers study of American decision-making in Vietnam to Neil Sheehan of The New York Times, which after months of clandestine preparations began publishing excerpts in June 1971, followed by other newspapers after the Nixon Administration tried to suppress the revelation.
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This does not even include the granddaddy of all ETFs, the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) with $250 billion in assets, though at what now could be described as a "pricey" nine-basis-points expense ratio, not in the same ballpark as the Vanguard and iShares offerings (it also is typically more of a trader than long-term investor tool).
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Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is the Cupertino tech giant's once-a-year paean to its vast network of third-party developers who, for the most part, build all the apps you know (and many you don't) and love (and many you don't) on your iPhones, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and, of course, the granddaddy of them all, your Mac.
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Most everyone remembers the granddaddy of all scandals, of course: how for years Wall Street rewarded itself with big bonuses for issuing home mortgages to people who it knew had little chance of repaying the borrowed money, packaged up those billions of dollars of squirrelly mortgages into securities and then sold them off as AAA-rated investments the world over.
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These are maneuvers taken from the playbook of the granddaddy of slapstick suburban holiday movies, Home Alone—the success of which everyone seems to think comes solely from the booby-trap sequence in which Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) lobs blowtorches, BB guns, hot irons, and paint cans at "wet bandits" Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) during its climatic showdown.
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So many threads, so many loose ends: We start with Roswell (the granddaddy of all conspiracy theories), we get a new Deep Throat character, we meet the aforementioned abductee, we peek into Scully's work helping children born without ears, we see the alien vehicle and we make a visit with Mulder to his old office at the F.B.I., seemingly for no other reason then to reintroduce Skinner into the mix.
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The exhibition proceeds broadly chronologically, from "China/Avant-Garde" onwards, with Zhang Peili, the granddaddy of Chinese video art, obsessively soaping and rinsing a live chicken in a bowl in sly mockery of a government diktat on cleanliness; shows like "Post-Sense Sensibility: Alien Bodies & Delusion", which Qiu Zhijie, one of the two artist-curators, hoped would "strike the senses" and "harass the mind"; Lu Jie's Long March Project, a vast curatorial experiment that tried to put on exhibitions and performances all along the route the Red Army took through the country in 1934-35; and Ai Weiwei's "Fairytale" project, which brought 19893,001 ordinary Chinese citizens to Germany in 2007 and turned them loose on the quinquennial Documenta exhibition in Kassel.
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