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...Italian avant-garde before World War I, where this show begins, found itself in a fix under the immense shadow of its own cultural history. Either it made a diverting Oedipal commotion about the loathsome oppressiveness of the past, like the futurists, or immersed itself in poignant reveries about its authoritarian and alienating beauty, like Giorgio de Chirico and his associates in metaphysical painting...
EVEN the most basic apsects of a healthy lifestyle have been drawn into a parasitical relationship with modern, quick-fix culture. Notions of good health are governed by a misdirected philosophy of immediate gratification and a hell-bent emphasis on current notions of good looks, while advertisers and the growing health industry invest millions in glamour and gloss to see that we never forget our waist lines...
...Recruit affair has put intense pressure on the Takeshita government, whose popularity is at a record low of 21% in the polls. Opposition parties have called for the Prime Minister to resign unless he acts soon to clear up the scandal. Says one pundit: "Takeshita is in a real fix...
...that some of those efforts haven't hurt my family and me," he said last week. "They have." Lorenzo maintains that he has done everything in his power to prevent Eastern from folding. He recalls the options that former Eastern Chairman Frank Borman described for the airline in 1986: "Fix it, sell it, or tank it." Unable to fix it, Borman sold it. As the bankruptcy court now begins to address the formidable task of putting Eastern back together again, Lorenzo was facing the possibility last week that tanking Eastern may yet turn out to be the only choice left...
...Scott McCormack--out for the season with a broken collarbone--and injuries to seniors Allen Bourbeau and Nick Carone, Harvard has another problem to contend with. The Crimson needs to figure out what went wrong in Friday night's 3-2 overtime loss to Vermont in the semfinals. And fix it. Fast...