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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started with a traditional barbecue in Arlington, Virginia, right across the river from downtown D.C. While some of our crowd of about 15 took the Metro to the Mall to stake out a spot for our picnic blankets, the rest of us went to Adams Morgan to drop off a car at someone's house. We didn't realize the walk back to the Capitol was a good 40 blocks, and we were pretty tired by the time we fought our way through the crowds on the Mall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Quintessential Fourth | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

...last of them, his unfinished The Large Bathers, 1906, one sees the characteristics that have always rendered these peculiar arcadian scenes difficult to love even as they compel admiration and even a certain awe. This group of 14 stock nudes gathered around what must have been a picnic basket is as resolutely antisensuous as an assembly of naked women could possibly be. Some of them look like seals stranded on rocks. Others are lumpish giantesses. None were painted from actual models because, as his friend the painter Emile Bernard recalled, "he was the slave of an extreme sense of decorum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: MODERNISM'S PATRIARCH | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Returning home was no picnic either as the team dropped another two games to ECAC foes, Vermont and Dartmouth. After the disturbing 2-1 loss to the dead-last Big Green, there wasn't much to say for the Crimson...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Icemen Overcome Midseason Problems, Shine in Playoffs | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...years ago, some students worked with visiting artists to build a set of picnic tables that were cut around Cabot's trees, some that fit snugly into the terraced corners of Whitman Hall and others that were free-standing. These tables are places to linger over a meal outside and listen to Hannah's sparkling laugh echo across the Quad; they are surfaces to sketch out thesis notes and to do take-home exams. One table, tipped on its side, becomes a backstop for a pitcher when Julian, our senior tutor, steps up to home plate and slugs a ball...

Author: By Patrick S. Chug, | Title: A Happy Lottery Story | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

...price of a six-pack 16'. Gingrich believes a beer-tax cut, plus the gas-tax cut, is a sure way to help the G.O.P. court Joe Six-Pack and other American voters. Democrats are fuming, partly because they didn't think it up themselves. There could be a picnic of repeals by the Fourth of July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 20, 1996 | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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