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...advertising apprenticeship taught him about the efficiency of images, the shock value of a grotesque combination or a violent contradiction. And he delivered them prolifically, from a rainfall of men in bowler hats and portraits of eagles ossified into plants to his famous picture of a pipe, subtitled "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe). Language was a lifelong fixation for the artist. He felt that because it was used to represent the truth, it was a betrayal: his picture of a pipe was only a simulacrum of the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two New Museums for Tintin and Magritte | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...addition to wraps, burritos, quesadillas and hot dogs were welcomed into the fold.In the height of the battle, Adams awoke one morning to find itself plastered in Magritte-inspired signs—a picture of a wrap sliced in two, arranged like a pipe, with “Ceci n’est pas un sandwich,” scrawled below. Thank you, anonymous artist, for giving me the perfect response to, “So, what’s Harvard really like?”“O RLY” was the liberals’ appropriate...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: That's a Wrap: The Truth Behind the Great Sandwich Debate | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...talking about European troops in Lebanon and how he didn’t think that the governments had made an adequate commitment and he said ‘Ceci n’est pas un peacekeeping force,’” I explain...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All Eyes on Surrealism | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

Ahn’s 26 career assists tie her with Ceci Clark ’02 for first overall in Harvard history...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson and Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Field Hockey's Ahn Named First Team All-American | 11/25/2003 | See Source »

...order to get to know the in-the-know set, Telyan says she tries to be a go-getter. Her strategy has proven successful. She and Ceci Connolly, a senior writer at the Washington Post, hang out regularly. Once Telyan and a senior writer at The New York Times met for drinks to talk about an education reform project she was working on for a summer internship...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meet the Presidents | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

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