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...refused to fly; when he disappeared to Spain, as he often did, he went by ship. In 1964 he arrived at the G.O.P. Convention in San Francisco by train without his beloved wife Kit. "We don't feel good traveling on the same train together," he said. Recently, childless and bereft of Kit, he found life less worth living. To paraphrase the poet, "She first deceased ... he for a little tried/ To live without her ... liked it not and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: BOB TROUT | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...These lifeless, flat and relentlessly maudlin landscapes do the impossible: resurrect the bourgeois landscape of the 19th century without even the slightest hint of irony. Such unremitting cuteness might just as well have been the result of Snuggles the detergent teddy bear's experimentation with a paint-by-numbers kit while on vacation in Tuscany. To Lake's credit, several of her horizontal compositions are unusually strong in their geometric structure and most of her works accomplish their goal of illusionistic pleasantry. Nonetheless, an obvious insensitivity to nuance, subtlety and modulation suggests that most of these pieces may have been...

Author: By John Hulsey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mallory Lake: Italy Light and Shadow | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...cement cellar of the house, the constitution of country. We recorded bass, drums and guitar all at once to capture the proper vibe, but focused on the drums, the idea being to build the song up from the bottom. The 16 microphones and stands placed around the drum kit looked like something out of Star Wars. In the console Matthew flipped from mike to mike, listening to the sound each captured. They were all remarkably different. My favorite was the "crotch mike." Named after its unusual placement near the drummer, it picks up a dark, distorted sound appropriate...

Author: By Ty Gibbons, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Hard Work, Crotch Mikes and 'Deuce Bigalow' | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

Members of the group are considering writing a letter of protest to UHS if the decision is made to prescribe RU-486, and would like to see a card included in the first-year "Safety Kit" informing all students of the Health Services fee refund policy...

Author: By Sarah L. Legrand, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: UHS Remains Undecided On Abortion Pill | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

LOST CHECK? If you are missing a pension payment, it may be owing to mismanagement at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Last week Senators Charles Grassley and Kit Bond held hearings to determine why the agency, which has been charged with underwriting retiree pensions, allowed some serious missteps. Some former Pan Am workers received misinformation about the very existence of their benefits, and one woman received a half-million-dollar payment in error. Having trouble with a PBGC account? Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Oct. 2, 2000 | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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