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...Matisse "Odalisque" uses the floral designs on Odalisque's jewelry and scarf and the designs on the wallpaper behind her to blend the foreground with the background. Picasso, in his "Femme au Fauteuil" also blurs these lines and presents a surface-tense, vibrant and mesmerizing painting that alone is worth the trip to Newbury Street...

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

...VIRGIN MOLLY. A soldier of dubious sexual orientation gives birth in this off-Broadway blend of bawdy barracks humor, blasphemy and brilliant surrealism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 30, 1992 | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...OPEN ROAD. Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking Away) prefers the stage, where he can blend metaphysical ambition and gothic excess. In this tale of strugglers on the loose, there are echoes of Kerouac, Beckett and Reaganomics interwoven with Tesich's moral fervor. At Chicago's Goodman Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 30, 1992 | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...single, A Better Man, was a true heartrender, a no-nonsense male confessional, and suggests that his new album, due in September, will be worth the wait. There are the Kentucky Headhunters, described by their rhythm guitarist Richard Young as "the scariest things in country music." The KenHeads blend whimsy, old-time picking and some refried hippie riffs with the dynamism of a rock band from some Ozark Olympus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garth Brooks: Friends In Low Places | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...does it only seem that way? In her second novel, Sheila Bosworth, a New Orleans native, evokes her home state and its people with elegiac grace and gusts of humor. The combination goes down as smoothly as bourbon mixed with bitters and sugar, a drink that has "the transcendent blend of passion and troubles and sweet pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth Potion | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

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