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...work for its social insight, and a journalist in 1893 credited him with creating "the epic of the lower classes" -- a visual equivalent, as it were, to Zola, Balzac and other literary realists whose project was to record the "real" France, top to bottom. But there is no echo whatever, in Lautrec's paintings or in his recorded remarks, of the political ferment that pervaded the intellectual and street life of Paris in the 1890s. And in terms of sexual politics, the seedy, overheated rooms of Lautrec's brothels are not much different from the satin bower in which, rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cutting Through The Myth | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Several scenes in Chekhov's drama echo Hamlet. Director Ron Daniels chose to high light this connection by casting the same four leads in the roles parallel to those in the A.R.T.'s production of Hamlet earlier this year...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: A.R.T. Presents a Striking Interpretation of The Seagull | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

...much canned fish a person can take. I used to wake up in a cold sweat with visions of Charlie, the albacore tuna, waving to me with that stupid smile on his face. "Sorry Charlie, we don't need tuna with good taste, just tuna tastes good!" would echo in my head throughout the night. Instead of counting sheep when I couldn't fall asleep, I could only see dolphins, leaping over the waves, in the most politically correct of all symbols that, situated just to the left of Charlie on the Star Kist can, reads "Dolphins Safe: No Harm...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Hallelujah, He's for Real ! | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...would run against Nixon in 1972, and Eugene McCarthy, who got into the New Hampshire primary in 1968 against Lyndon Johnson and helped force him to withdraw from the presidential race. McCarthy, now 75, has entered the race this year as well: he has come back like another echo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Campaign: The Long Shadow Of Vietnam | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

While respecting Harvard traditions and admiring the tones of properly tuned bells, this University cannot continue such artistic distortions as those which echo through the campus every week. Put simply: Don't ring the Lowell House bells...

Author: By Gayle K. Turk, | Title: Stop Those @!&# Bells | 2/22/1992 | See Source »

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