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His life could serve not only as inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's next screenplay but also, perhaps, as a very grim morality tale for those who would do anything for a sleeker look. On July 4, a man supposedly named Antonio Flores Montes, thought to be in his early 40s...
Last week, the Harvard Square Coop began a full gutting of their 1400 Mass. Ave. property and a "cosmetic renovation" of the Book Building on Brattle and Palmer Streets, according to Martin R. Flanagan, construction supervisor of the project.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton is tripping over his own symbolism on race. Having spent the weekend defending his race initiatives from critics including Jesse Jackson who say it's a shallow, cosmetic approach to a serious problem, the President is stalling on supporting a bill once again making its way...
In politics, appearances are everything. To assuage his critics, Newt Gingrich last week started paying down his debt to the ethics committee and promised not to borrow more than $150,000 from Bob Dole. But the appearance that Washington was talking about was more cosmetic: a newly svelte and shorn...
The first really significant American portraitist, John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), appealed to these values. The hard, uningratiating realism of his portraits of Boston's notables--not just the prosperous Tories but dissenters like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere--was more like some French neoclassical painting than like English portraiture...