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...Agassiz production of A Streetcar Named Desire bravely seeks to resurrect Tenessee Williams' play from its status as a silver screen sacred cow. The production is buoyed by a strong cast and well-wrought set, but lacks the direction to challenge Elia Kazan's 1951 interpretation or reclaim it for a modern audience...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Streetcar Arrives In Familiar Form | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...Maestro has filled his backyard with cow sculpture, created hundreds of clay cadillacs (the modern cowboy's horse), painted with air brushes and fabric paint and appliqued sequins and playing cards onto his works. Though the work does a very good impression of kitsch, it is distinguished by its relentless variety and Gaxiola's unique, informed stance towards the art World...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Cowboy Blasts Warhol | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

...know what the cow is feeling," Grandin, a realist, tells Sacks over a dinner of spare ribs. But while she has animal rapport, her neurological wiring bypasses most human emotions; the upheavals of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet leave her unmoved. The characters closest to her heart are Star Trek's android Data and his poignant predecessor, the supercognitive Mr. Spock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLIVER SACKS: HOUSE CALLS AT THE EDGE OF THE MIND | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

Professor of Chemistry Dudley Herschbach sayspost-modernist theory seems to be somewhatself-contradictory. "It seems to be a sort ofnihilistic thing," he says. "[Post-modernisttheory] is like explaining to a farmer that hedoesn't know what a cow...

Author: By David S. Goodman, | Title: Science's Objectivity Under Scrutiny | 3/8/1995 | See Source »

...credit card. The price of ordering the John Wayne Bobbitt video, Uncut: $49.95. Many people like to have this electronic sex in real time and become fixated on ``chat'' -- a kind of phone sex pecked onto a keyboard. Chat on the major online systems has been a dependable cash cow for nearly a decade, and, at rates from $2 to $12 an hour, it is easy to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE ID | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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