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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every line strikes with ferocious intensity. The drawings can also have a fuzzy and faint quality; crisp lines are smeared into misty shadows and dreamlike figures. A black and white chalk drawing entitled Lady Attended by a Handmaiden, has a hazy atmosphere to it, from no distinct quality but the softness of the graceful lines and gentle curves made by the chalk. Many of the scenes set outside are lazy and unfocused, yet the sun is obviously shining, even though the drawing has been done in black and white chalk...

Author: By Patty Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mastery & Elegance | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...extra $100, you can try DVD's pay-per-view cousin, called DVX. But don't get too attached yet. "Some of the concepts aren't bad," Kevin Hause, a senior analyst at market researcher IDC, says with faint praise. "In the end, the best thing about it may be that the player will still play DVDs after DVX dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1998 Technology Buyer's Guide: All The Best | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...liberal arts school in Maine or the frat-heaven of your state university, make sure to conveniently pilfer a few articles of clothing and especially a well broken-in hat. Go to bed every night wrapped in the comfort of his Cape Cod Community College sweatshirt with the faint and wafting scent of his cologne...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: How to Keep Him on a Leash | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

Meeting to discuss Huber's complaints of faint cooking aromas and sporadic emissions of smoke from the Faculty Club located on 20 Quincy St., the Commission passed a motion to await the results of amendments to the building's ventilation system before making any other recommendations...

Author: By Roberto Bailey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Faculty Club Hearing Postponed | 10/28/1998 | See Source »

Most notably, on Sept. 18, hours before Nelson Mandela was to receive an honorary law degree in Tercentenary Theatre, a faint odor was detected by passers-by near Memorial Hall...

Author: By Roberto Bailey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Newsgroup Postings Report Skunk Sightings | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

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