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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practice, it wasn't tried in any systematic fashion until after 1910, when the three founding fathers of abstract painting--two Russians, Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich, and a Dutchman, Piet Mondrian--came, more or less simultaneously, to believe that pure form, in opposing what they saw as the deadly materialism of European culture, could open the way to a world of pure spirit. Abstraction would become a language, the key to utopian states of mental and social harmony that had been only dimly implied in art before. Abstract art would be the music of the spheres for the 20th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: GOLDEN OLDIES | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...also act, though they don't have to here--for in this film, as in some TV news, the look is more important than the feeling. "Hair is character," says a woman in the movie, and director Jon Avnet seems to agree. Up Close has the tone of a fashion shoot; the movie lavishes art on the arrangement of bed sheets over Pfeiffer's body, the vector of her hair blowing in Redford's rugged face. Hard news, soft focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: HAIR TODAY, STAR TOMORROW | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...king's horses couldn't give this fashion victim of a play a fully convincing makeover. Pop culture, it complains, forces us to manufacture ourselves in the stylized image of our own mass-produced fantasies. The blatant phoniness of this predigested psychobabble is underscored by the soundtrack (imagine--a play with a soundtrack!), which features such luminaries as Sting, U2, Live, and Counting Crows. Despite its occasional flashes of loveliness, "Savage Love" limps along ponderously, bloated by the ostentation of the same culture that it attempts to parody--and, ultimately, fails to escape...

Author: By Nina Kang, | Title: Ignoble 'Savage' Flails and Fails | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...most other sectors of society, a double-paned, safety-reinforced glass ceiling exists for women on the Undergraduate Council. Women on the council are simply not expected to behave in the fashion the men do, and when they deviate from this unwritten rule, their gender is used as a weapon of punishment...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Haynes, | Title: Taking on the U.C. Penarchy | 2/28/1996 | See Source »

...status as a member of high society (Scottish son of the 26th Laird of Gleneagles) helped him capture classic images of the famous (Dietrich, Chaplin) and the powerful (President Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth); in Edinburgh. DIED. RUSSELL COLLEY, 97, dubbed the "father of the spacesuit," who designed the 1961 extraterrestrial fashion statement worn by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in America's first step starward; in Springfield, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 19, 1996 | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

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