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Baird calls it a night at 4:05 a.m. With most of the dress finished, Baird realizes the next morning that she needs snaps to hold her design together. After fitting her model, Rachel F. Banay ’07-’08, she checks her receipts—the snaps pushed her 86 cents over budget...
Given time, it was a question that would help a handful of American artists to the breakthroughs that produced Abstract Expressionism, the triumphs of Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and so on. Picasso would not be the only model they looked to. In their late-night arguments, the work of every painter from Uccello to Kandinsky was brought in for questioning and combed through for motifs and ideas, for rules and for permission to break them. But Picasso was the man, the one continually bursting through the confines of art history and coming back with discoveries worth bursting...
...DIED. Tamara Dobson, 59, Amazonian model-actress who created one of the blaxploitation genre's most memorable women-the Corvette-driving, martial-arts-loving title character in the film Cleopatra Jones; of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis; in Baltimore, Md. With her flashy style-huge Afro, big hats, leather-trimmed fur coats-Cleopatra was, in the words of the drug traffickers she battled, "10 miles of bad road." Before her career ebbed in the '80s, the 6-ft. 2-in. Dobson went on to appear in other films of the genre, notably the women-in-prison film Chained Heat...
...second round, posting a team score of 312, before improving with a 307 in the final round. The finish was good enough for ninth place in the field of 18 squads, just three strokes behind seventh-place finishers Birmingham-Southern and Yale. Shuman was indeed a model of consistency for the Crimson, posting a 75-74-75 for the three rounds of play at the MacDonald Cup. He finished in ninth place in the individual bracket, with Shore close behind in eleventh. The sophomore linked the slip in the standings to a few missed puts in the second and third...
...well-being of Chileans may be determined less by their level of personal freedom than by the lifestyle created by economic changes. In a new book, Tironi argues that Chile went from a European-style development model with a welfare state, to a U.S.-inspired model, with increased competition, entrepreneurship and risk and more working hours. "That means less time for friendship and community," he says. "That may make countries more competitive, but it makes people less happy, especially when per capita income is less than $10,000 a year." Brunner adds that inequality remains a hurdle: While rapid economic...