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...black-striped tower. The interior walls are 29-ft.- high, 6-in.-thick ice sheets, making a perfectly Scandinavian space -- frigid, shipshape, elegant and grave, a well-engineered mini-fjord. On into the 12-ft.-wide tube, which contains the exhibition space. Outside, the tube resembles a giant clothes-dryer ventilation duct and sits in a pool atop a black plinth -- and inside the plinth, in turn, is an aquavit-and-herring restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All's Fair in Seville | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

Beys said he wants to brings three or four more bands to Harvard this semester, such as Blues Traveler and Dryer Brothers...

Author: By Mark W. Brown, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spin Doctors Concert Lost Money | 2/15/1992 | See Source »

...roof. To eat his dinner, he has had to lie on his back. To relieve himself, he squats in one of the myriad byways. When the day is done, coal dust covers his face and permeates his overalls. Ruby takes a scrub brush to the washer, the dryer and the bathtub, trying to remove the sooty coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor The Curse of Coal | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...season opener -- in which Mom tries to greet new neighbors, rent out a room, fend off a suitor and keep the washer and dryer from being repossessed -- is a bit too hectic and overwrought. But the family is believable, and Olivia Burnette is totally winning as Dorothy Jane. With a voice that cracks charmingly at the high end, she can take a routine wisecrack ("They're just an unsuspecting, innocent family. Please don't turn into the Welcome Wagon from hell") and make it a cry of adolescent anguish. A TV kid whose jokes are rooted in real feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is The Sitcom Played Out? | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...government action clearly reflects the commonsense -- and incorrect -- notion that wetlands have to be wet. While swamps and marshes are more important, the dryer wetlands have their unique role in the environment. They are natural flood controls, and they also act as filtration systems for water passing through them. Some wetland plants absorb toxic pollutants like heavy metals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Over The Wetlands | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

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