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...firm, she is nearly 40 years old and had had her own office for 15 years. Now she found herself among 30 people, grouped according to job function, sitting at long tables arranged to form a rectangle in a 5,000-sq.-ft. room with a concrete floor and bare windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Kingdom For A Door | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...they circled around each other last week on the stage's red plush carpeting, the body language of both candidates told voters everything they needed to know about the way each man will pose and paint himself through the final two-week act of this election. Here, laid bare, was the choice: Who do you want to tame Washington for the next four years? The lover or the fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lover vs. the Fighter | 10/21/2000 | See Source »

Sitting on the floor--except for a big blue bean-bag, there's nowhere else to sit in their common room--Lee is working on another decoration for the bare walls. He and his roommates have acquired one of the large yellow and blue signs advertising Head of the Charles that are hung on street light poles around Cambridge--though they prefer...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Month Down, Fourty-four to Go | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...show Tallulah. After receiving a Golden Globe for Romancing the Stone and an Oscar nomination for Peggy Sue Got Married, Turner faded into relative obscurity. Several less commercially successful films later, she has returned this year to her former standing as an actress. Earlier this year she dared to bare all on the London stage in The Graduate and was lavishly praised for her acting form, as well as for her physical form, apparently still in fine shape at age 45. Turner also appeared in The Virgin Suicides, a Sofia Coppola film, as the mother of five suicidal daughters. This...

Author: By Krisa Benskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turner Plays Tallulah, Daaaaahling | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...case, it is doubly true. Neel's commitment to representing the figure, even when abstraction was the trend, led her to paint the people around her. Family, friends, lovers, artists and writers all appear and reappear with near-brutal honesty, often stripped literally and figuratively, down to their bare skin and most essential character. It is this ability of Neel's to completely reveal her subjects which makes her work stunning. Appropriately, her "Self-Portrait" (1980) awaits visitors at the entrance to the show, on the landing of the Addison's second floor. An 80-year-old Neel sits naked...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Ask Alice: Alice Neel's telling portraits of friends, family and art-world types | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

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