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...meager index of an artist's social life, held by a crisscrossed square of pink tape to an unvarnished pine board. Everything is actual size, and the flatness of the board corresponds to the flatness of the painting, so that the illusion is nearly absolute. The pencil and chalk marks on the board look just like pencil and chalk, every grain line in the cheap wood and fiber in a torn paper edge is there, and the play of the yellow and blue rectangles and envelopes against the square of tape has the lovely spareness of a Motherwell collage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reliable Bag of Tricks | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard women's tennis squad beat Pennsylvania, 5-4, on Saturday to chalk up its second win in a row against Ivy League opponents at the Beren Tennis Center...

Author: By Ahmad Z. Che on, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: ...And More of the Same for Netwomen | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...course, the Dems would have to balance the ticket. Janis Joplin would fit the bill nicely. Or maybe Itzhak Perlman. An Elvis-Joplin (or even Elvis-Cuomo) ticket would galvanize the electorate as never before. Will past drug use sink the nominees? Chalk it up to youthful indiscretion, as President Bush did when explaining away Clarence Thomas' joint ventures...

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: Rock the Vote | 4/1/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard men's lacrosse team is hoping to chalk up a win today in its home opener against 14th-ranked Cornell...

Author: By Tom W. Grave, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Laxmen Seek Win in Home Opener | 3/14/1992 | See Source »

...Chalk it up to injuries. Or hard ice conditions. Or the elimination of the compulsory school figures. Whatever the explanation, the 1992 Olympics will be remembered for laying to rest one of skating's favorite axioms: all medals are preordained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: The Empire's Last Hurrah Former | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

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