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...watercolor: children dressed in red and blue appear on a playground, fenced off from the adults in the black and gray street who have been reduced to figures out of Munch's "Scream"-both elongated and hunched with hollow eyes. Shortly after the burial of her father, a railroad clerk, Neel painted "Dead Father" (1946): a gentle-looking man, slightly too stiff to be asleep, lies in the bed of his coffin...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Ask Alice: Alice Neel's telling portraits of friends, family and art-world types | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

...cell-phone shopper who walks into one of the 120 Metrocall stores across the U.S. these days should be ready for a shock. The clerk, instead of delivering a hard sell, will whip out a one-page health-and-safety bulletin that warns of the possible dangers of using a cell phone. The leaflet cautions parents who want phones for their children to consider pagers instead, to avoid exposing the youngsters to any risks. "We try not to take sides in the argument about cell-phone safety," says Mike Scanlon, Metrocall's senior vice president for marketing. "But at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Cell Phones Need Warnings? | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...other first-time hosts, wondering where its visitors were on the eve of the big cauldron-lighting. Hotel rooms were vacant, seats were unused at the opera, street prices were dropping for ping-pong prelims, angst was rising. "Some now claim we never should've done it," said the clerk at Gowings as he brushed my new Akubra bushman's hat. (You'll like it, honey. Really.) "Bloody 'ell," he said, "the sports 'aven't even begun! Look around; it's already been great for the country. Those who say 'Why are we doing this?' - tunnel vision, I call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Turnout was also low at Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) headquarters on Garden St., where Democratic voters were offered contested races for only two positions: the Clerk of Courts and Register of Probate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Primary Turnout Hits Record Low; Kennedy, Robinson Win Easily | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

HARRY BENSON, the second half of TIME'S photographic tag team, visited the vacationing Vice President on Figure Eight Island, N.C. Benson had to bribe an airline clerk to get a scarce seat, but it was worthwhile. Benson, who has been photographing Presidents since Eisenhower, says the Gore family was unusually comfortable together. "I never saw as much affection with Jackie and Jack [Kennedy] as I saw with Tipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Aug. 21, 2000 | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

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