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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, it is undeniable that it takes quite a bit of skill to create the French prints. Line structure is extremely complex; contrast between light and dark areas within the print is obviously extremely difficult, given the task of creating depth with only two colors is a challenging feat in any medium. Indeed, these prints do deserve approval from a technical standpoint...

Author: By Risha Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting to the Chase: 'Woodcuts' Lacks Laughs | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...impossible to be moved by these prints, which is the essential motivation of art. The prints vary a little stylistically, but all have the same overall feel. The portraitures appear regal, the frames are often etched in with the figure, the allegorical prints are dramatic because of the contrast given to points of the artist's interest, and the everyday scenes are all recorded in concise detail. What all of these themes possess as motif are their underlying static feeling. These prints are immobile; the figures in them are frozen. Today, a viewer cannot relate to these scenes...

Author: By Risha Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting to the Chase: 'Woodcuts' Lacks Laughs | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...Also, in contrast to what was written in the article titled "Coalition Vows to Fight Sexual Harassment, Broaden Awareness" (Nov. 2), there are advisers in each of the Houses and in the Yard who are receiving formal training on how to assist and help to counsel rape victims. Students may find the names of the Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment (SASH) advisers in the "Tell Someone" booklet they received this fall, or from their House office or the Freshman Dean's Office. KAREN E. AVERY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orientation Programs Do Include Sexual Harassment | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

Costa points out the contrast between the news images of Iraqis obediently applauding Saddam Hussein and those of the United States Congress, where opinions are exchanged freely and sometimes rudely, he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterans Talk of Patriotism Gained in Service | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

Perhaps it's the numbing effect of living in a country whose cultural emblem is a statue of a urinating cupid, but it wasn't even close: Libidinous pursuits accounted for a feckless 1.7 percent of the million-odd calls to Scoot over the past five months, in marked contrast to the numbers typically racked up by sex searches on Internet-only systems. Besides pizza procurement -- the runaway winner -- other popular query topics up Waterloo way include travel and party locations. In other words, directions to Domino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Flanders, Plain -- or With Pepperoni | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

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