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Because of, never despite, such affinities, Matisse's originality is always clear. It lay in his unique gift of pure color. He possessed to the nth degree the power of making a flat disk of yellow or a slice of viridian turn into a lemon or a leaf, bathed in sunlit air. Sixty years have done little to blunt the impact of the flat-out chromatic intensity of some Matisses from the 1920s, like Anemones in an Earthenware Vase, 1924. The structure of the painting is as lucid as a theorem, with its pattern of rectangular hangings, panels and tabletop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Inventing a Sensory Utopia | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...KRONOS QUARTET (Nonesuch). The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet (Violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, Violist Hank Dutt and Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud) looks like a new-wave band and plays like an iconoclast's image-busting dream come to fiddling life. This disk offers the Balinese- influenced String Quartet No. 8 by the idiosyncratic Australian Peter Sculthorpe, the introspective Quartet No. 3 by conservative Finnish Composer Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass's somber, eight-minute Company, the rarely heard 1942 String Quartet by expatriate American Conlon Nancarrow and, as an encore, an arrangement of Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Once Upon a Time in America | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Printing papers that are created on your home word processor is fairly simple, provided you plan in advance. Translated, that means finding an appropriate systems disk for a Macintosh or a suitable word processing package on your IBM PC (or compatible...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Stairway to Term Paper Heaven | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

...file can then be printed on the laserwriter via the MacBridge program (the MacBridge disk is kept next to OIT's IBM PCs). Once the MacBridge program is run, it will ask for the name and type of the file to be sent to the laserwriter. Type refers to whether the file is Postcript or straight text (ASCII) format...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Stairway to Term Paper Heaven | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

...terminal isn't the only place in town with a laserwriter. Several stores in Harvard Square, including Kinko's, will happily print Mac or IBM compatible disk on a laser printer. The bill, however, will be much stiffer...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Stairway to Term Paper Heaven | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

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