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Flames erupted when a drape wrapped around a light bulb ignited. 'Poonsters had earlier put the drape around a wall-mounted chandelier to keep it away from a window...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Blaze Strikes Lampoon | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

David J. Kennedy '93 and William C. Wu '94 quickly doused the drape with water to put out the fire...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Blaze Strikes Lampoon | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...dwindled to just 20%. His followers counter that support for the president still runs as high as 80%. That sounds wildly optimistic, but there is no denying that the beleaguered president has his ardent advocates. The throngs that gather daily outside Gamsakhurdia's parliamentary refuge, packed mostly with women, drape banners that read DEAR ZVIAD. WE ARE WITH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Paranoia Run Amuck | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...Morocco, where Matisse's aesthetic of decoration took full hold. Flat pattern, inlaid motifs, sharp conjunctions of highly decorative forms -- as in the wonderful Basket of Oranges, 1912, with the sharp forms of citrus fruit and their leaves competing against the more diffuse pattern of the flowered silk drape on which they rest -- these were the signs of a world crammed with pictorial events, all common yet all august and tending to equivalent value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Domain of Light and Color | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...Justices open up college tenure files, drape protections around adult bookstores, slap the wrist of a trial judge and give criminal defendants a small break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Jan. 22, 1990 | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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