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Interstate 10, bound east to west, is a nonstop train of dreamers. Barreling through the desert, they come in search of the cheap thrill, the easy score, the fast women, the sugar daddies. On their final approach, they can already begin to make out the pale halo of the city's lights--lights that can be seen from outer orbit, against the dark face of a planet couched in the shadow of night. They make their way down to the strip and all around the city. They're greeted by a madman's dreamscape: castles made of sand, built with...

Author: By Robert J. Coolbrith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Reservation for One: One man, one hundred dollars and 15 hours at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...Computer science concentrators are freaks. They grow pale from lack of sunlight and get RSI. They are going to make a lot of money on the Internet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train: Tired Harvard Humor | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...laughter. The camerawoman kept zooming in on Jordana Lewis' '02 quintessential academic look and then panning over to Franklin's studied determination. At every commercial, we could watch ourselves on the monitor to the left and comment about who got the most airtime. Noah's face continued to pale as his fifteen seconds of fame loomed over him. But the patrons swilled locally brewed Shipyard Ale and hooted uproariously as the floor manager grabbed her microphone and told us all to keep quiet. And then, after countless cracks at Bush, diatribes from Cellucci, praise from Simpson, analysis from Capital Hill...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman and Frances G. Tilney, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Hit me with your best shot | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...eccentricities will pale in comparison to second husband Michael Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 14, 2000 | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...layers of canvas were used. Turning over the Turners, she placed the 200-year-old canvas backings under glass. Because a horizontal wooden support directly bisected the back of the canvas, a region of the backing was left less weathered, lighter in tone than the rest, so that a pale horizontal bar runs across the middle of each. The canvases look like a miniature Rothkos in sepia tones. Rothko wanted to create "the modern landscape," so the association comes full circle, again...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blow Up: Hypnotist-Collector Cornelia Parker Comes to America | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

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