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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peculiar sensibility of her work -- its steely finesse and suppleness, its imagery of blossoming, unfolding and embrace -- coming with such conviction, or perhaps at all, from a man. O'Keeffe was a woman of exquisite moral vigor. Now that she is dead, no effort will be spared to convert her into a mere culture heroine. In the gap between her death and this banal transfiguration, one can at least look at her paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Vision of Steely Finesse: Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-198 | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...serious, high-minded fellow who is simply trying to turn the dross of reality into art. As he says of himself in a postscript to What the Dog Did, "Any experience that happens, it doesn't just have to be a good experience, and--BAM--Ian Frazier will convert it to writing of some kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Off the Wall Dating Your Mom by Ian Frazier | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...campaign attempts to convert what is by nature a process of debate into a lifeless recitation of sterile data. Teaching at its best is not unbiased; it is provocative. An effective teacher challenges the student to agree or disagree, and to think of reasons for doing...

Author: By James A. Himes, | Title: The Academic Inquisitors | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

Cambridge shelters have the resources to shelter additional individuals. In fact, Shelter, Inc. organizers have raised more than $250,000 to convert the former Congregational Church near Central Square into a transitional housing facility. But the city's zoning laws prohibit the construction of any more "community residence facilities" in that Central Square neighborhood...

Author: By Barnes C. Ellis, | Title: Shelter Zoning Proposal May Ease Homeless Woes | 2/25/1986 | See Source »

...referee raised his arm to signal a penalty against the Crimson, and the RPI forwards--even as their goalie rushed to the bench to be replaced by an extra skater--dumped the puck into the Harvard zone and skated off for a line change, without even trying to convert the extra-man situation...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Practice Makes Perfect | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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