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Danylo had a virtually physical passion for poetry. He reacted to poetry he loved in the way a lightbulb reacts when connected to electricity. He would repeat favorite lines in that Slavic, declamatory way that makes of words a magically transporting physical experience, an illumination and a kind of intellectual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering a Handsomely, Admirably Constructed Life | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

But in all honesty, I can't say I wholeheartedly support the idea that the house lights should go down at the beginning of a theatrical production. It's not that I actually prefer productions where the audience is as visible as the actors. I've only been at two...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Death of the Audience | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

7 Eyestrain can result from working for long periods without proper lighting. For the Cornell family, natural light comes through a window during the day, and a combination of indirect fluorescent lights and dimmer-controlled direct lighting provides even illumination at night.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Sit Right, Study Hard | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

People loved the novel because of its tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic candor and because of its simple acknowledgement of a world going mad. It was a wacky satire that sparred with issues of societal conformity and rampant consumerism. The movie takes the consumerism slant and clubs you over the head...

Author: By Richard Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soggy Breakfast Has No Juice | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

Hollander's argument for why fashion matters is the same argument people sometimes still make about literature; in her excellent Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (1994), she writes, "The important imaginative function, the spiritually enlarging character of fashion, is often blindly ignored so as to paint fashion...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seriously Fashionable | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

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