Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CINDY SHERMAN, 33, belongs to a new American avant-grade which emphasizes content, narrative and ideas while exploring the effect of the visual image on the self and on culture. Sherman herself has attracted international attention for her provocative and grotesque photographs, most of which she appears in. Yet Sherman's photographs, which will be on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) through January 17, cannot be called self-portraits, for the artist uses make-up, costumes and wigs to create different characters, different personae in each piece...
Cold. So cold a Boston Globe reporter and Boston Herald reporter abandoned the open-air press box Saturday at the Yale Bowl and found shelter in the Eli field house, content to listen to the game on the radio...
Harvard wasn't content with its three-goal lead and marched into Army territory again with 3:34 left in the period. Weisbrod scored on a power play and then 18 seconds later, Ed Presz responded with a tally right in front...
...praised Roethke's hectic, incandescent verse and gossiped about his violent breakdowns. He described his electroshock therapy in rhyme: "Swift's servant beat him./ Now they use/ A current flowing/ From a fuse." The jolts were useless. He died of a sudden heart attack at 55. Jarrell was not content to be the best poetry reviewer of his time, says Meyers, "he had to be a great, perhaps the greatest poet -- or he was nothing." It was during one dark time that the writer, 51, fell under the path of a moving...
Devices are being designed that will allow fitness-conscious Americans to take precise readings on their own. This spring Futrex, in Gaithersburg, Md., plans to introduce a hand-held computerized analyzer. Borrowing technology developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine the nutritional content of meat and grain, the device beams near infrared light on the arm. As the light passes through the flesh, fat absorbs specific wavelengths; light emitted through the skin is then picked up by a detector. The computer translates the information into percent body fat. Cost of the device: around...