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...something would be different this day. Taped up to the bleachers for the adjacent men's field, there was a sheet--an unmistakable blot against the gray...

Author: By Erice F. Brown, | Title: Chelius, Colligan, Winters, morgan: A Room to Remember | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

Some of the most striking representations of a sterilized or blurred. Michel Dector and Michel Dupuy's joint contribution, Drancy (1994), is a segmented white canvas with a smeared, irregular blot faded into its surface. Suggestive at first glance of a stain beneath the skin, good and evil blurred, it is identified in the exhibition program as the depiction of a swastika, whitewashed over in a Paris suburb. According to the artists, the French authorities paint over persistent expressions of Neo-Nazi sympathy. Drancy's whitewash addresses the equally obscured period in French history of Vichy France complicity...

Author: By Natasha Wimmer, | Title: ICA Holocaust Show Leaves Viewer Cold | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...clever use of puppetry and guignol splatter effects, here is like a physician who assumes a patient's fever in order to understand her illness. He visualizes the landscape of Pauline's and Juliet's minds as a fetid garden, where fairytale plots of courtly love and castle intrigue blot out their edgy lives at home and school. The girls' vision of Borovnia utterly mesmerizes them. Anyone who would break the spell -- like Pauline's sweet, anxious mum -- must be a witch. Must be sentenced to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Heavenly Trip Toward Hell | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...Saturday, even the cold, drizzly weather couldn't blot out the very real signs that things are moving in the right direction...

Author: By Peter N. Man, | Title: One Big Family | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

Saddam Hussein was the ghost at the banquets last week, diverting the attention of both the old Administration and the new. All the galas in Washington could not blot out the uninvited presence of the defiant Iraqi dictator. For the millions watching it all on television, images of Saddam and the U.S. air strikes in Iraq mixed with those of George Bush and Bill Clinton in rapid sequence, as if part of the same show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Get Organized | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

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