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Over the course of the season, James began to exhibit more patience on offense. He and his teammates began to pass the ball inside more. The balanced attack resulted in more wide-open shots for the perimeter shooters, namely James...
...Greek countryside, munching on leaves and nibbling at seedlings. While countries such as Bulgaria and Yugoslavia have banned goat raising to protect their forests, Greeks apparently prize the animals much too highly to contemplate life without them. Says Niki Goulandris, a museum curator in Athens who has mounted an exhibit about the damage done by the gluttonous grazers: "Greeks must eat their goats before the goats eat their forests." To that, most Greeks would respond with a vigorous...
...floor exhibit at the ICA is organized according to different periods in Sherman's short career. Her earliest photographs are "film stills," small black-and-white pieces in which she assumes the role of an imaginary starlet caught for the camera in a contrived Hollywood moment. Already in these early works, which date from the late '70s, one sees the artist's preoccupation with her own transformed image. The film stills reflect, says Sherman, "the role playing that everyone does through life...
CLIMBING THE stairs to the second floor of the exhibit, the viewer is confronted by 10 "costume dramas," enormous, eight-foot tall color fashion photos. From the rosy-checked all-American girl to the angry looking woman with the blonde hair in her face, Sherman has perfected what she calls the look of "anti-glamour." Many of these works were commissioned by Paris fashion designers, and Sherman's seems to have deliberately tried to make herself look ugly in their glamorous clothes...
This floor of the exhibit is dominated by bizarre and grotesque "fairy-tale scenes" in which Sherman creates her fullest narratives, single images which bring forth a dream or fantasy. These disturbing images feature Sherman as a variety of different characters, including an Arabian prince, a deformed pig-like beast and a drowned corpse. Set in an eerie and frightening landscape of rocks and gel lighting, these fairy tales jump from Sherman's imagination into...