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Cantabrigian John Buster said that 80 percentof the city's present shelters are located nearfour percent of its population, in the area thatsurrounds Central Square...

Author: By Quentin A. Palfrey, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Shelter Location Disputed | 12/11/1992 | See Source »

...Buster said this lopsided figure reflects theneighborhood's lack of political influence. "Thisshouldn't be played out as the powerful dictatingto the powerless," Buster said. "We need to beheard...

Author: By Quentin A. Palfrey, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Shelter Location Disputed | 12/11/1992 | See Source »

...oversize Polaroids that Wegman started making in the late 1970s, Man Ray can be found patiently enduring whatever new conceit his master would visit on him. Dusted in flour, tricked up as an elephant, wrapped head to toe in Christmas-tree garlands, he had the comic gravity of Buster Keaton and the acrobatic ambiguities of a four-legged pun. The pictures made Wegman, until then a lesser-known Conceptualist, the kind of artist who gets invited on Carson and Letterman. Four years after Man Ray died in 1982, Wegman acquired Fay Ray, a chocolaty female of the same breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Wegman: Bowwowing The Art World | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

Team Tyson, represented in court by Washington attorney Vincent Fuller, seemed unimpressed by the prosecution -- as if Garrison were Buster Douglas just before Iron Mike got tanked in Tokyo two years ago. "There were one or two members of Fuller's staff," notes Garrison, "who did not think us country bumpkins could find our asses with both hands." They were wrong about him, and about Washington. "She's a good kid with a pure heart and a tremendous amount of courage," Garrison says. "And she shined like a new penny in front of that jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law The Bad and the Beautiful | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

Explaining Blue Man Group is no easy task. Take the Blue Men themselves. They are expressionless and robotic, yet oddly childlike and endlessly creative: a tripartite Buster Keaton, dropped in from Saturn. Some of the bits are overtly satirical (a dead fish on a canvas is the subject for a high-toned art critique, which scrolls by on an electronic message board). Others are raucously playful. One of the Blues tosses what appears to be marshmallows across the stage to a comrade, who catches them with his mouth and stuffs them inside like a huge wad of bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking The Jell-O Mold | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

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