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...life was so sad and truncated, and the art that came out of it so limited, that it seems unfair to dwell on either. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Basquiat had talent -- more than some of the young painters who were his contemporaries, though this may not be saying much. The trouble was that it did not develop; it was frozen by celebrity, like a deer in a jacklight beam. In the '80s Basquiat was made a cult figure by a money-glutted, corrupt and wholly promotional art-marketing system. He died in 1988, a year before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purple Haze of Hype | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...Against RPI, we're just going to try to play our game," McCann said. "Some player's may have [last season's loss to RPI] in the back of their minds, but we're not going to dwell on the negatives of last year...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Future's So Bright: Icemen Host Union | 11/13/1992 | See Source »

...families change, so will the look of new communities. Is this the suburb of the future? On Bainbridge Island, Washington, 30 families dwell in a five-acre pedestrian village where doors are seldom locked, townspeople share cooking duties and even the children have their own rule-making committee. Based on an idea pioneered in Scandinavia, the Winslow CoHousing Group is a kind of commune gone condo that tries to merge the best elements of two very different styles of community life: the efficiency and fellowship of a collective with the privacy and equity of home ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Forward to the Past | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...heroic rescues. It cost the company about $80,000 for each of the several hundred otters it cleaned, many of which died anyway. The use of scalding-hot, pressurized seawater to hose down beaches left many areas almost sterile, empty of the limpets and other intertidal creatures that dwell there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska's Billion-Dollar Quandary | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...while her fiction is often taught in Courses that dwell on political themes, Harper says, it is not political...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Visiting Lecturer Jamaica Kincaid | 9/25/1992 | See Source »

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