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  • An Inopportune Time The debate comes at an inopportune time.

    How the Debt Ceiling Could Ding You Ben Levisohn 2011

  • This is immediately evident in Inopportune: Stage One, which includes nine real cars, suspended from the museum ceiling, simulating a car bombing.

    YesButNoButYes: Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim 2008

  • The first artwork you'll see in the Guggenheim show is "Inopportune: Stage One," a spectacular stylization of a car bombing, unfolding cinematically — or like the narrative of a Chinese scroll — with nine identical white Chevy Metros tumbling down the museum's spiral atrium, and vibrantly colored light rods projecting from each one.

    Pop Goes the Easel 2008

  • "Inopportune: Stage Two" is a work of painful beauty, depicting nine life-size, fabricated tigers, pierced with more arrows than Saint Sebastian, jumping and writhing in agony.

    Pop Goes the Easel 2008

  • Inopportune pregnancy obviously has been around for a long time.

    Gregg Easterbrook Falls for Levitt's Abortion-Cut-Crime Theory Steve Sailer 2005

  • Inopportune pregnancy obviously has been around for a long time.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Steve Sailer 2005

  • Inopportune arrival of Mr. Perkupp, but he is most kind and complimentary.

    The Diary of a Nobody Grossmith, George, 1847-1912 1921

  • Inopportune arrival of Mr. Perkupp, but he is most kind and complimentary.

    Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith 1879

  • Inopportune turnovers like a third-quarter fumble with his team driving and iffy completion percentage hint that he is struggling to find his best form.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed SEAN GORDON 2011

  • Inopportune timing Collin scored the tying goal that gave K.C. the draw in the 90th minute.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

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