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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stuff the Whitney normally favors--Kienholz was red meat all the way. Which doesn't mean that his output was uniformly good. An item like The Ozymandias Parade, 30 ft. long and including hundreds of figures, from life-size horses to tiny toy Indians and frogs, wants to impress you so much it becomes a fulsome, preachy bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: ALL-AMERICAN BARBARIC YAWP | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...seemed like he was deliberately trying to impress me," Brown says of the stationary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beavis, Butthead AND Cohen | 3/9/1996 | See Source »

...could buy a lot of cheap beer for $110--the full price of the course. But without Tocci's expertise you won't be able to impress your friends with your astounding grasp of mixology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Training Master Mixers | 3/9/1996 | See Source »

...interact with their students? Will they get to see that elegant food in the dining hall just isn't an everyday thing, or even an every-month thing? Will they get to see that the masters emerge from their palaces only once in a while, when they need to impress parents, and that their purpose is still not clear to students? I don't think...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: Snazzy Teas and Bow Ties | 3/2/1996 | See Source »

Another criticism is that the layoffs are an attempt to impress Wall Street. In particular, some analysts suspect that the equipment-manufacturing business will take the heaviest hit--23,000 layoffs--because it is the only one of the three companies into which the parent is being split that will sell new stock, in addition to distributing shares to present AT&T stockholders. An initial public offering of as much as $3 billion, which might be the biggest ever, is planned for late March. Allen concedes that "there is some pressure from the ipo to get things right and look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT&T: DISCONNECTED | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

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