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...space, shows the influence of cinema and collage in ways that are taken up in other of Mansen's works. "Schlafzimmer" (Bedroom) is a work composed of four prints. The first shows a bedroom backdrop, done in monochrome. The next introduces a green figure; the next a red blanket; the next a yellow figure; in a simply elegant way, Mansen gives woodcuts the power of cinematic narrative. Another print, "Kuche, Telle" (Kitchen, Parts), simply shows the objects to be found in a kitchen, a pot, a bowl, a fork and knife, in a two-dimensional still-life that creates...

Author: By John T. Maier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Domesticity, Modernity | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...friendly,nor grass particularly inviting, and maggots, inspite of their usual chillpower, turned out to bequite stunning in all their hulking, iridescentsplendor. In Antz on the other hand, thingsare very much as you'd expect them to be; aninsectine monarchy where Utopia is a defined by ared checked picnic blanket. The trick 3-D spacegives ant mythology the strongest flavor ofrealism, though nothing could be further from thetruth...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diversity of Disney: Anxiety, Allen and Tale of Ants | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

However, it came up short in the debates over increasing flexibility of student loans and a blanket ability of students to consolidate and refinance their loans at the lower rate...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Education Act Clears Senate; Will Increase Aid | 9/30/1998 | See Source »

Think quickly: Where were you on August 27? That, according to NASA scientists, is when the biggest Earth-bound burst of gamma rays and X rays ever recorded pummeled our planet's upper atmosphere, disrupting radio broadcasts and satellite transmissions -- whilst the occupants, safely sheltered beneath a thick blanket of air, remained largely oblivious. The source of this blistering radiation: a tiny star, measuring a mere 12 miles in diameter (roughly the size of Washington, D.C.), speeding more than 20,000 light-years away on the other side of the Milky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What a Blast! | 9/30/1998 | See Source »

...Motorola, was vacationing in the Bahamas with his wife Karen. She wondered aloud why she couldn't call home from their secluded getaway on Green Turtle Cay. Good question, thought her spouse. By 1988, Bertiger and two colleagues had drafted blueprints for a revolutionary new system that would blanket the heavens with communications satellites--77 in all--bounce a cellular call from one to another, then beam the data stream downward 420 miles to one of 12 earth stations where the call would enter the terrestrial telephone network. Motorola dubbed the system--and the company it spun off to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next: The Super-Cell | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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