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...angularity of the thing, the openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave a flashlight and say things. Minneapolitans lean forward and watch them, perspiring, afraid that some subtlety may escape them. St. Paulites look at each other and say, "Whose idea was this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEET HOME, MINNESOTA | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...third man rebolted a pair of flight-control rods to two hookups that relayed the pilot's tug on his control stick to the movable flaps that control the plane's flight. Mueller, a highly regarded 17-year Air Force mechanic, double-checked the work with a mirror and flashlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLACING BLAME AT ANY COST | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...when one entered a media center in the Georgian Athens, behind a sign that said WEIGHT AREA, a floor below the animal-sciences department, one found 16 volunteers dancing attention on two members of the international press corps while others poked around in a copy machine with a pencil flashlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GAMES TRIUMPHANT | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...Professor Scarry] reminds me how it feels to stay up with a novel and a flashlight until your eyes hurt," a student wrote on the nomination form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.C. Honors Excellence in Teaching | 5/8/1996 | See Source »

Teresa L. Brown, a Lincoln resident who works as a sales clerk at the store, says she has chatted with Kaczynski. He has bought fishing gear and asks here what bait is likely to work at a particular time of year. He has occaisionally purchased candles, batteries, a flashlight and a bag to carry things back to his cabin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unabomber Suspect in Custody | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

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