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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH BY MAKE-OVER | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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.

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, | Title: Coop Restructures, Remodels for Fall | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ducking The Check on Race | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEWT SLIM-FAST DIET | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAKING IT STRAIGHT | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

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