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...something done, even if it means breaking a fingernail. Four years of living in New Haven have toughened her up, given her an edge on life, made everything after Yale seem like a piece of cake. She could wrestle down a wild boar to save her children, brush herself off, and still be the epitome of wit at a dinner party at the Harvard Club that night...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Boola, Boola, Eli Yale! | 11/19/1994 | See Source »

...Antonio, Texas, that he and his colleagues have devised an alternate approach that is much cheaper, simpler and easier on the mother. It removes the need for fertility drugs and daily monitoring. "There is nothing terribly complicated about ((the procedure))," Trounson claims, "so it will spread like a brush fire because the patients want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fertility with Less Fuss | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

Influenced by the writings of Helene Cixous, Doris Lessing, and others, the videos in the "Wild Women Film Festival" offer an easy way for women's studies concentrators to brush on feminist theory...

Author: By Nell Freudenberger, | Title: The Wild Women Storm the Film Archive | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

...wharf, a sun-drenched path or a perfectly motionless pond. Thick paint and broad strokes complete his portrayal of utter screnity through the heaviness and fixity of the surface texture of his canvases. Figures are rendered almost motionless, defined only by a few cursory passes of his brush, while those figures standing on a path or in a park as if on a stroll end up pasted to the canvas-like statuettes, unable to draw up the anchor of layered oil that bonds them to their station in Farndon's visual space...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Yankee Impressed | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...administration. Or, I might wonder if the artist unintentionally used Dean Epps in this sexual cartoon because of all the beliefs surrounding the sexual prowess of the Black male in American society. I could even suggest that, instead of it being a Freudian slip of the brush (pen), the Lampoon artists and the board blatantly used a racial stereotype, knowing its offensive ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Fear Black Leaders | 10/28/1994 | See Source »

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