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...gave my computer an angry stare this past Tuesday afternoon. I had a 17-page paper due Friday and an inbox full of unanswered mail. But my computer was not sitting in its customary spot my desk. It was packed in a cardboard box at the University Information Systems (UIS) parking lot in Allston...

Author: By Anna-marie L. Tabor, | Title: Watch Out for TPC | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...went to visit Mondrian, the great Dutch abstractionist, in his Paris studio. He already admired Mondrian's work, but he had never seen its environment before--that fanatically judged, ordered workplace of white and primary colors where even the Victrola was painted red. Rectangles of painted cardboard were pinned around the walls, and Calder was seized with the desire to see them move. They should oscillate at different speeds, he told Mondrian, who replied, "No, it is not necessary, my painting is already very fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Merry Modernist | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...full of it," Tomes says. But he kept running across that sentence in other religious volumes. Finally Tomes gave in--and gave away his televisions, his radios, his Russian artifacts and even his bedroom. "I moved into the basement of a friend's house and slept on cardboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Line Of Fire | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir," King said. "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'" These were not the words of a cardboard saint advocating a Hallmark card-style version of brotherhood. They were the stinging phrases of a prophet, a man demanding justice not just in the hereafter, but in the here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martin Luther King | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

BOSTON--It seems only fitting that a gift shop whose most popular-selling item is a White House golf team polo shirt would use life-size cardboard cutouts of Bill and Hillary Clinton as part of its interior decor...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

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