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...upstaged the events which Ellis is depicting. Ellis, who has condemmed the American people's frightening ability to absorb atrocities, hoped to create a uniquely disturbing work, but he failed. Jeffrey Dahmer's slaying of homosexuals in Wisconsin, the racially motivated slaughter of Yankel Rosenbaum and inner-city realities overtook his work...
...sense of exaltation these shows leave behind untinged with regret: one knows that this golden moment of the museum retrospective, flourishing amid the corrosive vulgarity that overtook the American art world in the 1980s, will not return. Its coda, and in some ways its climax, is the show of paintings and drawings by Georges Seurat that, having spent the summer at the Grand Palais in Paris, opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York next week...
...medley relay was the opening event of the meet and foreshadowed the rest of the day's events. Kovacs burst out of the blocks for a commanding lead on the first leg but Princeton's stars, Nelson Diebel and Ty Nelson, overtook the Crimson in the next two legs of the breaststroke and the butterfly. Harvard's Wagner tried to pull it out for the Crimson with the fastest anchor leg of the event, but the Harvard team fell short by nearly half a second...
...final race of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay, was inconsequential to the overall score but was the closest race of the day. Going into the final leg, the Crimson held a lead of over a second, but Cornelius overtook Harvard's Lynn Kelley in the last 25 yards. Cornelius's split of 50.77 was even faster than her time in the individual 100-yard freestyle that she won earlier in the meet...
Once Harvard (6-9 overall, 4-0 Ivy) snapped out of its torpor, however, it erased a 19-point deficit and overtook the visiting Wildcats (2-17) en route to an emotional 71-64 victory...