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...admit that I enjoy a good boxing match on ice here and there, but dropping your gloves and trying to punch someone's nose through the back of his skull during a hockey game is ridiculous. It just doesn't belong...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Shields Just Make Sense | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...century is that they are skilled exercises in a trivial genre; they descend from earlier Dutch conventions-those towering masses of tulips and roses, full of squishy virtuosity; but they lack the architectural grandeur of earlier Spanish works and promptly induce surfeit. After them, the Spanish still-life tradition nose-dived into academism and decor through the 18th century, with the single exception of the Madrid painter Luis Melendez (1716-80), whose massive arrays of boxes, wrinkled cheeses, copper cookware and glittering dorados or sea bream were disparaged as minor art by academic pooh-bahs and never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: FOOD FOR THOUGHT | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...entire half-hour video, even with a high-speed modem, takes nearly 24 hours. That's why they break their program into smaller segments that can be retrieved one at a time. For instance, Let's Go Giggin, a five-minute comedy bit broadcast last week that features a nose-ringed clown hunting frogs with a stick, takes half an hour to come to life on a computer screen. Still a long wait, but where else can you find entertainment like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO FREE CYBERSPACE | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...flush the toilet and wash their hands after using the restroom. Some hadn't been taught how to tie their shoes and had to ask classmates to help them keep their laces knotted. And one boy had a terrible cold but didn't know how to blow his nose. He sat miserably for a while until the teacher took him outside and taught...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: School Begins At Home | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

...reads some book about alchemy. A pack of men in makeup hovers by the register. We argue over whether the student at the next table is busy reinventing quantum physics or whether he's just stuck on Matter in the Universe homework sheet #5. A covey of high school nose-piercers play with their napkins. A couple discusses a table full of brochures that sport the words "Black Bread" above an oddly cropped photo of a naked man. We are way to scared...

Author: By Lindsey M. Turrentine, | Title: Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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