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...face of it, Thiebaud, 81, is a Realist. He loves material fact, with a preference for inertia. He started off in the 1960s painting gorgeously lush still lifes of kitsch diner food--everything from hot dogs to angel-food cake and gumballs. Then he turned to painting people, or rather embalming them in his characteristic thick, smooth and (when used to make flesh) slightly rubbery pigment. After moving to San Francisco in the early '70s, he took his eye outside and did cityscapes--those strange, plunging perspectives of the hills and highways of the city, translated into gravity-defying slices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Poet Of Pastry | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...Jackasses and Limp Bizkits of the world, reruns are a haven in the big scary media environment. For kids, they are another manifestation of today's palimpsest pop culture, in which everything is ripe for sampling and nothing stays dead. They have seen the movies morph Charlie's Angels from jiggle joint to empowerment parable; now they can see the reruns, back on TV Land, big sisters once removed to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dark Angel. Says Ron Simon, a curator at New York City's Museum of Television and Radio who teaches in the film department at Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Rerun Revival | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...delighted by the sight of multiple-produced American food. Not so much the package (like the soup can) as the soup itself, or for that matter the sandwich, the cake or the slice of pie, sitting there in virginal garishness, the coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits, under the fluorescent tubes in the glass diner case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Poet Of Pastry | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...derailed their efforts, Duke's doctors were able to find Hunter a new liver and install it in time to give him new life. I witnessed part of the surgery, performed by Dr. Betsy Tuttle, and was there shortly after Hunter awoke from the anesthesia and described how an angel on the wall of his hospital room had told him, "It's not your time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shotgun Rides Again | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

Taylor earned her American bronze in typical dramatic fashion, passing Johnson off the final hurdle to secure the national team berth. She won her Penn Relays and NCAA crowns in similar fashion against Texas’ Angel Patterson...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taylor Places Third at USATF Nationals, Eyes Worlds | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

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