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...dead as Otello at the fall of the final curtain. Other areas of the art market that were badly shaken in the crash of the late '80s, from Old Masters to Impressionism and Americana, have shown cautious signs of life; but for most contemporary material, the bottom of the pit has not yet been plumbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Auctions in the Pits | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

After the disastrous weekend, the FIA board of directors met in emergency session, but the only decision it made was one designed to improve safety in the pits -- a reaction to a relatively minor mishap in which a wheel flew off a car and hurtled into the Ferrari pit, injuring three mechanics. The federation also announced that it would study the possibility of installing speed controls on Formula One cars, and that it would consider requiring the installation of air bags to prevent the kind of head injuries that apparently killed Ratzenberger and Senna. After the race, Italian officials launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...game itself will pit the unyielding Harvard defense against the explosive Dartmouth offense. Harvard, led by McAnaney, co-captain Francie Walton and freshman goaltender Kate Schutt, has allowed only 81 goals and 187 shots in its games this season, all league bests...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: It's Not Easy Playing Green | 5/6/1994 | See Source »

...inevitable ends of sensual lives, hedonism as its boundary: That need for constant novelty as the body jades finally in it mere sensual pleasures. For the true sensualist, uninhibited by and strong social conventions, who is drawn by his appetites alone, there is no end to that pit into which he falls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reflects Age of Separateness | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

Luko Adjaffi is better known to Harvard Students as "Bob Marley in the Square." But with his second solo CD, the Haitian -bon Adjaffi seems determined to move out of "the pit" by Out-of-Town News and follow the steps of his dread-head predecessor Tracy Chapman. With the 12 songs he wrote and arranged on "Passion," the 27 year-old Adjaffi indicates that he's finally hitting...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Harvard Square's Bob Marley Is Jamming His Way Up in the World | 4/21/1994 | See Source »

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