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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Woman in a Loge" a young woman in her 20s sits in her theater box facing us, wearing an off-the-shoulder pink gown and holding her fan on her lap. Even here, Cassatt is already experimenting with color. Cassatt employs bright tones; a red flower on the woman's dress echoes the rich red of the velvet chair behind her. More striking, however, than Cassatt's choice of bright colors is her manner of achieving these tones. The blues and yellow of the theatre walls, reflected in a mirror behind the young woman, reappear as blue and yellow tones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blurring with the Wolves | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

After our third lap, he asks, "You boys seen enough...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, | Title: THE HONG KONG AN ORAL HISTORY | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...servants were forever sweeping, swabbing, scouring and polishing, re-enacting through drudgery the holiness of Martha in the house of Mary. Practices of hygiene got raised to the level of devotional acts. A marvelous example in De Hooch is A Mother and Child with Its Head in Her Lap, circa 1658-60. The child kneels submissively with her face down. The mother, absorbed in her task, is picking lice from her hair. From this ordinary domestic event, De Hooch creates an extraordinarily tender image of care and even sanctity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pieter de Hooch: Visionary Homebody | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...final round of his "test" to earn thePudding Pot, Jackson read a passage of the Biblethree times: in the voices of a Shakespeareanactor, as Yoda from "Star Wars," and as a bedtimestory to Korn, who sat on Jackson's lap...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding Royally Roasts Jackson | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...should celebrate its championship, and hopethat another victory lap will come sometime inlate March...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: No. 1 W. Hockey Bags Beanpot | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

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