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...false encaustic that gave his surfaces both substance and an inner glow, as if light were working its way through layers of slightly dusty translucency. You thought of it as skin. Marden was a brilliant colorist, in a very tuned-down way. His warm grays and brick reds, his low thick blues and his blocks of terre verte, betokened nature, suggesting planes of light on sky and sea, old stone and vegetation. They had none of the inorganic chemical look of so much post-Pop American color. But their danger was that they could turn into a formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lines That Go for a Walk | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Nine years ago, Harrison achieved his dream and moved into 535 Mountain Boulevard, a three-bedroom brick-and-stucco house. At that point the law firm he helped found was four years old and starting to prosper. Harrison and his wife Joy began thinking about raising a family. "I was absolutely thrilled to be here," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aftermath: How Do You Rebuild a Dream? | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...brick in your toilet, and forget about protesting Bush's abandonment of the wetlands. Teach for America, and forget about protesting the cuts in school funding. Volunteer at a homeless shelter, and forget about protesting the economic policies that put the homeless on the street...

Author: By J.d. Connor and David A. Plotz, S | Title: One National Point of Light | 11/1/1991 | See Source »

...failure to translate individual anger into social action is destroying our political culture......Just put a brick in your toilet and forget about protesting Bush's wetlands policy...

Author: By J.d. Connor and David A. Plotz, S | Title: One National Point of Light | 11/1/1991 | See Source »

...killer was quickly identified as George Hennard, 35, an unemployed seaman with a reputation as an oddball. An intemperate recluse who apparently hated women, Hennard was thrown out of the merchant marine in 1989 for possessing a small amount of marijuana. He lived alone in his mother's stately brick house in nearby Belton, where he delighted in screaming obscenities at passing females and harassing neighbors with threatening letters. But Hennard's strange life-style could not begin to explain the enormity of his act. Said police chief Francis Giacomozzi: "There was nothing we recovered to show he was capable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Ten Minutes in Hell | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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