exciting (usually a large pile of cookies). Sesame Street apparently used the 'k' spelling; Cookie Monster used it in a Letter of the Day sketch as his example of a 'k' word. (When Prairie Dawn claimed that 'kowabunga' was not a word, he told her: "Kowabunga too a word. It esoteric, but it poetic in its own right.")*

60 years, and cowabunga still isn't uncool. Not quite as long a run as cool and OK, but quite respectable for a made-up nonsense word. These days cowabunga has taken over the role of the original Kawagoopa, and is a positive exclamation or battle cry, indicative of unbound exuberance or a devil-may-care attitude.Publisher's Description
History Repeating is the first comprehensive survey of the Israeli-born photographer and video artist Ori Gersht (born 1967). This richly illustrated book presents the best of Gersht’s achingly beautiful images, and explores how he intertwines spectacles of painterly and narrative imagery with personal and collective memory, metaphysical journeys, contextualized spaces and the history of art and photography. Be it in the scars left on the sunlit yet war-torn buildings in Sarajevo, the white noise of his train journey to Auschwitz, or the clearing of trees in a forest that once stood witness to mass murder in Ukraine, Gersht’s vision bridges a history that is full of violent horror and a world of emergent, transcendent beauty. From the radiant optical glow of pollution in the atmosphere to his