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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...juxtaposing these vividly colored, incongruous pictures, Gilbert and George render banal the images and provide witty social critique. Signed boldly in red by its co-creators, "Staring World" comments on celebrity worship and the information age's endless proliferation and confusion of images from the spiritual to the pedestrian...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: MFA Shows More Than Just a Pretty Face | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...Greenberg, chairman of Bear Stearns and one of the Street's franchise players. This year Ace scored bonuses, on top of his cheesy $200,000 base salary, adding up to $18,840,701 in cash, stock and what a proxy statement calls "other compensation," more than double the pedestrian $8 million he got last year. And that's not the biggest take on the Street, or even in his own company. President and chief executive James Cayne will collect $20,159,337, enough to impress even an N.B.A. point guard. An embarrassment of riches? Perhaps. Bear Stearns executives agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULL BONUS BONANZA | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...those who support programs like SEO, I simply went home, called up my uncle on the stock exchange, got a job and retired to a posh country club for the evening. Unfortunately, the truth is that I must search through volumes of binders at OCS and actually perform the pedestrian task of sending out resumes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White Men Not Invited | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

...Schaffer states that she "...would rather have a bicyclist hit a pedestrian than a car hit a bicyclist." I must confess that I have only received one year of Harvard's fine education, but I believe that is what is known as a "false dilemma." Nonetheless, Ms. Schaffer is compelled to make this agonizing choice because the seven minutes required to cross Harvard Yard on foot is "...to much for most Harvard students to sacrifice." Apparently a few minutes of time in the interests of public safety constitutes an unconscionable infringement of right, but injuries sustained under the wheels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Moral Principle Allows Bikers to Ride on the Sidewalk | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

...Dartboard understand their requiring bicyclists to use headlights, but we cannot understand the mandate that bicyclists not ride on the sidewalks. Although we don't support either situation, we would rather have a bicyclist, hit a pedestrian than a car hit a bicyclist, and the chances of the latter are much greater if the bikes are on the street than if they are on the sidewalk...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: GANDHI ON A MOUNTAIN BIKE | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

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