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...statistics depict a fairly even contest, as Boston College earned three corner kicks to Harvard's two, and both teams took 11 shots...

Author: By Jared R. Small, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Notebook: M. Soccer's Trench Warfare | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...reshapes older comic art into a new and expressive form. Like any good Postmodernist, he borrows from the past--the Superman bits, 19th century ads, a touch of Little Nemo and Krazy Kat. But Ware's appropriations all serve his story. The 1890s novella uses sepia tones to depict senior Jimmy's claustrophobic home life; the '50s comics motifs perfectly capture junior Jimmy's state of arrested childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Comics: Right Way, Corrigan | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...Gorey's best-selling books used rhyme, whimsy and a distinctive cross-hatched style to depict the macabre, from the 26 dying children (one for each letter of the alphabet) of The Gashlycrumb Tinies to the hook-nosed visitor of The Doubtful Guest, who never seems to leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Memoriam | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Rozanova's art ran through a whole gamut of styles. Early works depict people in everyday settings such as parks or cafs. Disjointed combinations of overlapping, spiraling objects mark Rozanova's shift towards futurism. Rozanova's suprematist paintings lack any semblance to the naturalistic scenes of her earlier works. Her textile designs and simple shapes recall Malevich's abstract geometrical configurations and her planes of overlapping color bring to mind the paintings of Sonia Delaunay...

Author: By Anya Wyman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rediscovering Rozanova | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

Please inform the author that he may use as many colorful Celtic stereotypes as he can find. He may therefore depict Celts as hard-drinking, red-haired, freckle-faced, hot-tempered, trouble-making, bar-fighting, blue-face-painted, war-crying, shillelagh-wielding, whiskey-swilling, barbaric, primitive, illiterate, sheep-loving, green-hatted, bagpipe-playing, potato-eating, Guinness-guzzling leprechauns. Permit me also to suggest the use of such classic Celtic phrases as "top o' the mornin' to ye!", and "they're always stealin' me lucky charms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

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