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...always a liability, this frenetic motion sometimes creates a brilliant effect as in Landscape with Boat. Easily the most abstract and compositionally daring painting in the show, Landscape with Boat looks like a jagged collision of two blue dot screens leaving a gigantic gash across the canvas. Only upon closer inspection do we notice the prow of a tiny red boat jutting in from the lower left-hand edge of the painting. This careful cropping coupled with a horizonless point of view emphasizes the vast and perhaps overwhelming aspect of nature often captured in actual Chinese painting...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: Seeing The Big Picture | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...when Robinson entered the field, he was incessantly mocked and jeered in the North where all of the major league teams were located. Pitchers threw inside to intimidate him; fans released black cats onto the field; opposing players repeatedly attempted to spike him, once causing a seven-inch gash on Robinson's leg. Moreover, countless teams tried organizing boycotts to prevent Robinson from playing on their fields...

Author: By Sozi T. Sozinho, | Title: Remember Jackie Robinson | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

...stone missed its mark, hitting Jessica instead, according to Butler-Mackay. Rachel carried her friend, who was bleeding from a large gash on her head, into the church and tried to remember the first aid she had learned, Butler-Mackay continued...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: Brouhaha At Church Prompts Questions | 2/12/1997 | See Source »

...David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe and Nan Goldin (the subject of a recent Whitney Museum retrospective), who pioneered gritty work on the body. Only Annette Lemieux, who according to label text "divides her time between New York and Boston," provides a compelling work, "Pacing," a blank canvas traversed by a gash of black footprints...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: MFA Shows More Than Just a Pretty Face | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

Olmos said she received a gash in her forehead and muscle cramps in her legs, which prevented her from walking...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: First-Year Is Hit by Bus On Memorial Drive | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

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