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...close encounter occurred the year before the bombing. In the spring of 1994 he ran an ad offering to sell a piece of property in the Ozark mountains of Missouri. "In the middle of nowhere," it read, "at the end of a rough road, at the bottom of a hollow...there may be a cave." When Maloney got a phone inquiry soon after, he asked if the caller's name was spelled "M-C-V-E-Y." "That's close enough," came the answer. In the fall of the same year, three men drove up to Maloney's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHO IS ROBERT JACQUES? | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...exhibit, "so that the viewer[s] can bring their own experiences to the piece." With a smile, she comments that one viewer of the next piece, a tangled-looking work dubbed Exhalation, was quick to pick up on its "definite influence of Dr. Seuss-aesthetic." Several good-sized hollow glass letters dangle between the ceiling and a podium, suspended by clear fishing wire and connected by flesh-colored rubber tubing. The letters spell out a hidden message (sorry, you'll have to see it for yourself), and a small fluttering feather balances precariously at the end of the final letter...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...Personally, I think [the effect of final clubs] is detrimental. For those of us that aren't members or aren't welcome it still leaves the social situation at Harvard kind of hollow," Coffey says...

Author: By Paul K. Nitze, | Title: Is Harvard Anti-Social? | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...doubt the FAS will, for once, respect the socalled "community standards" that it exalts with hollow boosterism...

Author: By William L. Kirtley and Megan L. Peimer, S | Title: Joe Hickey's 'Retirement' | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

This matter-of-factness was inevitable: the sheer passage of time dilutes horror. The earliest AIDS deaths were accompanied by roaring panic. My friend Eric, a stage manager and haberdashery salesclerk, died in '86. His extreme weight loss and hollow-cheeked pallor gave him a look of near theatrical decay, and his paranoia and memory loss were not then recognized as symptoms of dementia. He was surprisingly granted a luxurious room in a Manhattan hospital, with a uniformed guard at the door; we later discovered that the staff was being extra cautious because another AIDS patient had jumped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOW IT'S AIDS INC. | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

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