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...practitioner performs both the diagnosis and the cure -- an exotic hand-and-body dance designed to "re-establish the balance of yin and yang" -- from any distance away. Thousands of visitors pour into the Philippine Islands to have local sleight- of-hand artists apparently dip bare-handed into their body to remove cancerous tumors. They dip into their bank accounts rather dramatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Stamp Out Absurd Beliefs | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...grey paint on the plywood floor has been worn away where Felix stands. Ranges of bare wood reveal the compass of his days, in front of the edge trimmer, metal fast, heel sander, finishing machine...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Fixing Shoes the Old Fashioned Way | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...almost feel that people are slighting me, or not taking me seriously, when they call me "Jon," as if they are thinking they can get away with anything less than the real McCoy. "Jon" is the bare minimum--the shortest abbreviation of my name those butchers could possibly shrink it to and still get my attention...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: Just Don't Call Me Jon | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...method of "transfer of nature to canvas" differs from artist to artist, but the underlying theme seems to be a simplification of natural forms to their bare essence. The genre attempts to narrow the dichotomy between form and content. The artists' subjects are brought to the surface by means of abstraction: the figures or objects are stripped of the paraphernalia that composes form and are, instead, reduced to only content...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, | Title: Exhibit of Modern Art Surveys the 20th Century's Aesthetic Innovators | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...didn't spend enough time weaving together, we were so busy exploding ideas. The rehearsal process I have, it gets so big, so huge. They didn't have a text, they only had a bare-bones text one week before the show...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Interpretations of Hans Canosa: Talking Theater With a Student Director | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

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