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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answers, we need only turn to any of the exhibition's 17 striking canvases, where tiny scholars and fishing boats cower under misty, mountains. In Yellow Cliffs, three Benday dot cliff faces drop steeply from the painting's upper left corner. At the bottom, Lichtenstein's fluid, black contour describes an undulating boulder. This black outline, originally taken from comic books, contains a small patch of red parallel lines, which were used to denote shading in the half-tone prints of newspapers and magazines...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: Seeing The Big Picture | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...decided to retire. Kenyon, who was forced to negotiate a $314 million line of credit for the company last fall, admits Northeast could go bankrupt early next year if it doesn't get at least one plant running by then. "I don't know exactly where the cliff is," he says, "but it's out there. If we don't get these units up and running, the ball game's over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR SAFETY FALLOUT | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Their shared personal histories, however, suggest that Lott and Clinton are capable of missing the moment. So which will it be? Will they "hold hands and jump off the cliff" together, as Lott likes to say? Or will they hold hands and tiptoe around unpleasant choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOTT LIKE CLINTON? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...Bill Cosby been dealt such a terrible blow? How would his TV character Cliff Huxtable explain it all to us?" IRA M. CUTLER Port Chester, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1997 | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...participated in Lenin's coup. The government's efforts to bring electricity to the whole of its parts certainly proved an inspiring theme for much of the Soviet propaganda. Other posters' promise of education--as well as the illustration of the illiterate as one blindly walking off of a cliff--show the importance of learning within the Soviet regime...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: GETTING FOGGY | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

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