Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About the time most prospective parents are obsessing over what color to paint the nursery, Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. were acquiring a gray garbage bag with yellow drawstrings and a map of Newark, Delaware, to help them find a Comfort Inn off the highway, where birth and death could come and go in a moment. Was there ever a second when one of them was shocked by the horror of it all and said, "No, we can't do this. Have we lost our minds?" only to be talked back into it by the other? Did they hear...
Black nabbed 5.6 points and 3.5 rebounds per game last year and will take on increased responsibilities in the paint this year. She will be joined by juniors Sarah Brandt and Allison Seanor as well as sophomore Suzie Miller...
There are at least three strong reasons for picking the Nintendo, and we'll begin with the strongest: technology. The N64's greatest miracles come from a specially developed internal processing chip that does one thing--paint rich pictures on your TV--better than any other device in history. Called the Reality Co-Processor, the chip was designed by 3-D special-effects giant Silicon Graphics (of Jurassic Park fame) and built by Japanese chip monolith NEC. Even as computers do more in smaller spaces, there's something extraordinary here: SGI and NEC have stuffed the sophistication...
...picture that launched his career came to this then unknown, 24-year-old Southerner in a dream. One night in 1954, by his own account, Johns dreamed of painting a large American flag, and the next morning he got up and began to do so. He would play with the flag motif for several decades more, rendering the Stars and Stripes in wax encaustic paint on newspaper collage, in oil on canvas, in bronze, pencil and lithography. His fascination with it came, in part, from his very nuanced and ironic feelings about the function of art, particularly in America...
...Johns' Flag, 1955, a flag or a painting? The American flag is the best-known abstraction in the world; is a painting of an abstraction a representation? The questions twist back to Rene Magritte's famous brainteaser, the painting of a pipe with "This is not a pipe" written above it (of course not, dummy; it's a painting). Flag is designed like a flag, but it's made of paint, not cloth, and it cannot "fly"; it is static, stretched, rigid. You are meant to pay attention to its surface, which never happens with a real flag. This surface...