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...were curious about what "soft sculpture" really entails, so we called Christine K. Lee '93, one of the project's organizers. The soft sculptors will paint on hundreds of T-shirts and arrange them in either "a pile on the steps of Lamont," or "string them around a tree." Everyone who passes by the spectacle may take one of the shirts, thereby changing the size of the pile and contributing to what Lee calls an "evolving work of art." This project, remember, got four hundred dollars...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: OFA: A Real Jerk | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

...know how to win the hearts of the Council for the Arts. We will stress that our magazine has the most limited appeal of any journal on campus. We'll dress soft sculptures in original fashions, and parade them at Midnight on Halloween. We'll set up a pile of crap somewhere in the Yard. We'll drop oil-stained tunics into a vat of vomit...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: OFA: A Real Jerk | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

Nash fortified himself for the grueling reading by downing a bowl of Life cereal and a pile of potato chips prior to starting at 12:10 Saturday afternoon-"late, in true Irish style," he said. For liquids, Nash confined himself to drinks both "black and diuretic--coffee and Guinness" only...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Student Salutes Author With 24-Hour Recital | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

Curiously, great beauties do not always make great models. Connection to the camera is key. When photographer Arthur Elgort meets a young model for the first time, he wonders if she will "transfer" onto a photograph. "She's cute in her little jeans," he explains, "but when we pile the Givenchy and Ungaro on this 20-year-old, the girl could disappear before our eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing Beauty and The Bucks | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...daring flop, and How to Succeed, his longest-running hit, Loesser worked on two more shows: Pleasures and Palaces, which closed in Detroit, and Senor Discretion, for which he had composed drafts of all the songs. This workaholic was a smokeaholic too; in his study, cigarette butts would pile up like a Watts Tower of spent nicotine. Loesser called them coffin nails, and he was right: he died of lung cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Snappy Fella | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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