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Some adjustments were almost comic. Females quickly learned that their lingerie would be ruined in the ship's laundry, which has no gentle wash cycle. The mess-hall menu was geared to hungry young males, with few low-fat items. More bathrooms had to be allotted to women in the 333-m-long carrier so they wouldn't have to walk city blocks to find one. Male sailors received so many lectures about fraternization that at first they were afraid even to talk to females. "Everyone was on edge," says Bosun's Mate 1 Isaac Small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALL HANDS ON DECK | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...hassle to deal with the cleanup and mess--and then to move to MIT," Davis said...

Author: By Scott A. Martin, | Title: Sailors Overcome Adversity | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

...Dealing with the mess was kind of a bonding experience for us," Krause said. "We lost a week of practice time, but we're coming into...

Author: By Scott A. Martin, | Title: Sailors Overcome Adversity | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

This is not to say that L.A. is a city without problems. The new subway project is a mess. (Given its beautiful weather, Los Angeles is not a city meant to be traveled underground.) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences didn't nominate Hoop Dreams for a best documentary Oscar. Crime remains frighteningly high. And white flight in some Southern California communities threatens to break up the multiethnic mold that is the secret to the area's past and future success...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: California Dreaming | 4/5/1995 | See Source »

Definitely, not the channels we're used to surfing. But within this context the television gains a new weight as a cultural icon, a mess of wires worthy of being considered along with the oil paints and bicycle seats of past art lore. It was not until the mid 1960s that artists began to use the commercially available portapak cammera as an artistic medium, and since then, the technical and conceptual sophistication of video art has increased dramatically. Gary Hill created his first video installation in 1974 and went on to become a prominent, internationally renowned video artist...

Author: By Judith E. Dutton, | Title: Movement Meets Text | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

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