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Moreover, his work does not create typical collages. The images, instead of being assembled from a variety of media, are all painted directly onto canvas to resemble torn sheets of paper or wrinkled photographs. In “Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar, and Sometimes a Pipe is Not a Pipe,” he works from a reference to Rene Magritte’s classic “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” and from a smouldering cigar; he exposes organic components of heart, bone and vascular tissue in boxed-off frames...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Solo Self-Reflection Shines in Dual Show | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...were characters, interrupting one another repeatedly. DiBella provided authoritative information on the miserable state of boxing, presenting himself as a no-nonsense class act in a world of scoundrels. Skeeter came off as a tough guy who knows his business. Sugar, nonetheless, stood out. With his classic fedora and cigar, he contributed the insightful information of an experienced journalist and the humor of an old vaudeville performer...

Author: By Dave Weinfeld, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WeinLanguage: Personality Packs A Punch | 4/10/2002 | See Source »

This obviously isn’t the composed stiletto and cigar crowd of Pravda 116 or the cheesy eurotrash crowd of Roxy, both of which are around the corner. While those house and trance clubs are about dressing to impress (and, one must admit, even ravers have their claim to fashion-consciousness), the ideal drum ’n’ bass weekly is all about keeping it real and relaxed. Unpretentious except in regards to their unpretentiousness, drum ’n’ bass raves have also been noted as the gathering place of the scum...

Author: By Tina Rivers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drum 'n' Bass 'n' Harvard | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

Today, of course, you can't pick up a fashion magazine without seeing splashy liquor ads picturing women sipping themselves into various states of rapture. "Get in touch with your masculine side," instructs a recent Jim Beam ad, which depicts a woman puffing on a cigar. Flip on an episode of Sex and the City, and you are likely to catch Carrie Bradshaw and her friends blithely tossing back candy-colored cocktails at a downtown bar. But it's not only thirtysomethings on TV who persistently overindulge. On a recent episode of the Fox sitcom Undeclared, several college coeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women On A Binge | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

DIED. HERMAN TALMADGE, 88, cigar-chomping ex-U.S. Senator and Governor of Georgia who started as a staunch segregationist--he voted against the Civil Rights Act--but later supported issues important to blacks; in Hampton, Ga. The Democrat won respect for his fierce, effective grilling of Nixon witnesses while on the Senate Watergate Committee but lost his bid for a fifth term in 1980 after the Senate denounced him for financial improprieties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 1, 2002 | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

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