It's as simple: Like Rauschenberg erasing a de Kooning, it seemed fine to let an audience edit everything I've ever done (and drafts, works in progress, bad ideas even) and let them destroy them.
Even so, as the year progressed, that bad news seemed to mount up.
In a similar vein, one could also question whether technological progress was bad for farming or just family farmers.
The ULEZ has its virtues, but the capital's halting progress on bad air could yet shift into reverse.
They made early progress, but bad weather set in and the team were confined to base camp.
Innovation and research are exploring new realms in biofuel production, and efforts to hamper progress are bad for our environment and our energy security.
Many developing countries believe, with reason, that they were short-changed in the Uruguay round: this time, as a result, the outlook for progress is bad unless the rich countries liberalise agriculture, where the developing countries know they have so much to gain.
History, Marx said, progresses by its bad side.
As Karl Marx noted, "history progresses by its bad side".
Mizuho, however, raised its profit forecast, saying it was making progress in shedding bad loans.
