Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supporters, predictably, attacked the study. Says Dolores Krieger, professor emerita of nursing at New York University, who founded TT in 1972: "It's a cute idea, but it's not valid. The way her subjects sat is foreign to TT, and our hands are moving, not stationary. You don't just walk into a room and perform--it's a whole process...
...gesso surface with an airbrush, in strict accordance with the grid to which Close enlarged the original photo. It suggested an obsessive involvement on the artist's part, but kept the viewer distant, with nothing sensuous to hook onto--unless you had a thing about freckles and wens. This idea of deadpan, photo-derived "objectivity" was much in the air at the time--a small movement, Photo-Realism, was one of the spin-offs from Pop Art--but nobody took it as far as Close, or with such riveting effects. These are lost in reproduction--the image shrinks back...
...mistaken announcement by astronomers that a "Giant Killer Asteroid" is streaking toward Earth: Wouldn't it be great if more people agreed with Grossberger that we earthlings have really not accomplished much and "the end of civilization as we know it isn't such a bad idea"? We could take his advice and issue press releases saying, "Hey, we gave it our best shot, but we really weren't up to this existence business. So, we're outta here." Deep inside, you know who you are. ALAN REID Abbeydale, England...
...prosecuted today for what she did in the mid-1980s because the federal statute of limitations has run out. That leaves a perjury or obstruction case against her for losing records and telling falsehoods to the FDIC or grand jury, but Starr appears to have backed away from that idea. And though the prosecutors questioning Tucker focused on Hillary's Castle Grande work, according to a source familiar with the session, "they are more interested in writing a book than bringing an indictment...
Some legislators are appalled at the idea of exporting tobacco. California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi says, "How can we possibly say smoking is deadly for our kids but O.K. for foreign children?" Hollings and Ford argue that America has no right to dictate to other countries. Why punish American suppliers, they reason, when most of the $262 billion in world tobacco revenues winds up in the coffers of state-owned monopolies...