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...much an art exhibition as what in the '60s was called a happening. The sheer three-dimensionality of it - Christo's plastic-wrapped bicycle, César's compressed automobiles, Claes Oldenburg's Store with its huge floppy pie and ice-cream cone, the aluminum-foil recreation of Andy Warhol's Factory - signals that this is a show to be experienced rather than just observed. Similarly, the inclusion of consumer products - from Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dress to plastic radio bracelets and Star Trek-like chairs - turns the exhibit into an exercise in pop-cultural archaeology, akin to opening...
...Harvard fencing team qualified three fencers for the NCAA Tournament this weekend at the regional qualifier at Boston College. Junior Emily Katz and freshman Liz Blase made the cut in the women's foil event, while co-captain Eugene Cha became the first Harvard man to qualify for Nationals in three years by securing a spot in the men's epee...
...number of fencers who did not make it to the final round also made their mark yesterday. Captain Ellen Schulz made it to the round of 15 in the foil before falling when the field was narrowed down to ten. Foilist Mark Lee also performed well for the Crimson...
...Causes a burning sensation b) Is repelled with aluminum foil c) Creates giant killer marshmallows d) Reheats Saddam...
...vocal X-philes. They served as Mulder and Scully's nerd consiglieri, lending their computer geekspertise to the alien-hunting agents. And their deadpan delivery and off-the-wall conspiracy postulates (for instance, about the magnetic strip the government plants in dollar bills to track you) made a hilarious foil to Mulder and Scully's G-man gravitas. In 1997 producer Vince Gilligan conceived an episode around the three; another followed the next season. Eventually Carter, Gilligan and two other X-Files producers sold a series to Fox, which was eager to extend the bloodline of what remains the network...