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...Keeffe's controversial, longtime assistant Juan Hamilton, comprises 117 pieces and serves as a walk-through of O'Keeffe's career. Among the works on view are early masterpieces from the Evening Star series, which presage whole generations of American abstract art. The surreal animal skulls floating with flowers in their eyes are here, along with the kind of gynecological exposure in the guise of Blue Flower, 1918, that made early audiences cough nervously. And there is the late work From a Day with Juan, 1977, whose white ramp jacked up into heaven presents a bland portentousness that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: O'KEEFFE ENSHRINED | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

Tears were the first bond. They glistened on Judith Jamison's face as she stood beside an elderly woman veteran of South Africa's liberation struggle. They trickled down the cheek of a younger South African woman who knelt beside the flower-strewn memorial to her brother, felled by a police bullet on June 16, 1976, the first day of the Soweto uprising. After lighting candles, the kneeling woman and three other family members softly intoned their new national anthem, God Bless Africa. "That's when I lost it," Jamison said later. "I identified with them as black people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: BACK TO THEIR ROOTS | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...reported, the corner reflectors were put together with beams made of balsa wood and coated with "Elmer's-type" glue (to strengthen them). Also, he noted, the New York toy company that manufactured the reflectors had reinforced the seams with leftover tape that Moore recalled had "pinkish-purple abstract flower-like designs"--markings that Major Marcel could have interpreted as hieroglyphics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DID ALIENS REALLY LAND? | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...center of the house, preferably under a mattress or in a bathtub. And the citizens of Jarrell, a small town 42 miles up the interstate from Austin, did have time to take precautions. Meteorologists, concerned with the unseasonably high dew points (it has been a bumper wild-flower season) were broadcasting warnings. Tornado sirens went off at 3:55 p.m., 10 minutes before the winds hit. But for those in the path of this twister, all that knowledge was in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOWHERE TO RUN | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

Fast Track was not the only new feature at Loker. Earlier in the year, Harvard officials replaced the newsstand and vending machines in Loker with a flower shop and book exchange in response to student feedback. However, these offerings were deemed unsuccessful and were relocated by the TV lounge...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: Loker Fights Financial Distress | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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