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...mimic wet hair, effulgent sunlight, gunmetal, crinoline, catsup, cardboard, painted brick and polished linoleum. And he got those effects without losing sight of the muddy pleasure of pigment itself, a fundamental notion of modern painting. In a few inches of sailcloth or the slip worn by his Girl at Mirror, he could put white paint through as many adventures as Robert Ryman does in his snow-flurry abstractions. As for his pieties, they turn out sometimes to be the same ones fundamental to civil society. By nothing less than an actual vote among Post readers, Saying Grace was his most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Innocent Abroad | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...sequence of bungee jumping acrobats costumed as birds), you're treated to a two or three minute interlude of dazzling fantasy: a parade of stilted clowns dressed as elephants, a giant inflated snail floating across the stage, a five-foot baby bouncing a giant ball around the theater, a mirror reflecting the audience onto the ceiling. Maybe one day it will be trendy to like Cirque du Soleil--and shows will pop up all over the country just like Riverdance. Oooh. The thought makes me nauseous. Until then, appreciate the chance to discover this surreal secret of dizzying imagination...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOMAN'S IN THE [K]NOW | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...their bathroom? It's kind of weird because there's a mirror facing you when you use the toliet, which you don't really need to see. It smells really good in there. The Hasty Pudding bathroom is perhaps the best smelling bathroom I've used in some time...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In The Bathroom With B.J.: An Interview With The Delta Stow-away | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...something about it." Doing something about it, according to the NAS, means creating some sort of federal regulatory agency, a kind of FAA for the practice of medicine. The academy carries significant weight on the Hill, and should expect White House support as well since the proposals mirror portions of President Clinton's proposed Patients' Bill of Rights. Which means the feds could soon be making sure that "First do no harm" is more than just a physician's motto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Regulation: A Cure for Bad Medicine? | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

...look at ourselves and take a look in the mirror and find out where it is because we can't keep doing this," Moore said. "I think we'll have to sit down as a team and talk about it and hopefully be ready to go next weekend...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Falls to Stirling, Brown, 4-2 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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