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...dressing, not for success or status, but just as self-expression. Abraham Mora, a junior at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School, has packed away his tie-dye Ts ("so trendy now") in favor of Girbaud jeans and Cole-Haan loafers. "Just look at me," says Michael Barnett, a junior at Washington's Field School who sports a vigorously declarative print shirt. "I'm a wild and crazy guy. With dress codes you don't get to see other people's personalities, just the same old clothes." Brand-name sportswear, from Benetton to Topsider, Adidas to Fiorucci, is coveted. Whatever...
Johns cites his own early paintings, those of his contemporaries (Barnett Newman, for instance) and those of past masters -- Durer, Grunewald, Picasso. His indirectness and liking for allusion coexist with something akin to physical rage: the body parts in his paintings speak of dismemberment, not mere anatomy. His diagonal cross-hatchings are both subtle and banal, for Johns' scrutiny flickers in a perplexing, teasing way between simple pattern recognition and active, probing attention -- so that something quite unremarkable as an image can swell up into a ravishing pictorial event. Sometimes one is excluded; it is like eavesdropping...
While Mecham no longer faces criminal charges, few expect a quick revival of his tattered political career. His acquittal in no way affects his earlier impeachment, which was based on two unrelated charges: misusing state funds and trying to thwart an investigation of a death threat. Said Prosecutor Barnett Lotstein, explaining the case's outcome: "A lot of people in this community feel that he has suffered enough...
...Historian Kirk Varnedoe, at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Ga.: "I have a couple of disadvantages speaking to you today. I'm trained as an art historian, not an artist, and the painter Barnett Newman once said that art history is for artists what ornithology is for the birds...
Lion ace Bart Barnett held the Crimson to just four hits and seven baserunners over seven innings to earn a shutout win. Harvard never had more than two runners on base in the same inning and no Crimson player got as far as third base...