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...Peepshow" is, in fact, the name of this painting, also entitled" Code 2," to indicate that is a part of Ahr's latest series, "Code" Ahr says he calls these works "painted structures [because] they're not just plain surfaces...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: An Ahrtist at Harvard | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

...Though a plain-clothes guard stood watch during the protest, University Police Chief Paul E. Johnson denied rumors that he had approved round-the-clock surveillance...

Author: By Jim Schwartz, | Title: Students March Again on Mass Hall | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

...They did not set up an ad hoc in the plain sense of the world," said Starr." They reconvened an older committee that had already decided on a policy unfavorable...

Author: By Joel A. Getz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Starr Claims Committee Hurt His Tenure Chances | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

There are two kinds of people: those who divide things into two categories and those who do not. Vladimir Nabokov is the first kind. In one of his earliest U.S. lectures, the Russian emigre told his classes at Stanford University that there were, essentially, "verb plays and adjective plays, plain plays of action and florid plays of characterization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamesman the Man From the U.S.S.R. & Other Plays | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...attached to the wall of Prince Leopold's castle in Cothen. But someone standing in the run-down Cothen castle courtyard--part of the building is used as a state prison today--would be hard pressed to imagine how Bach could have been inspired by his surroundings. The Saxon plain is as flat as Kansas, its tiny villages grim studies in brown and gray; the ferocious reforming spirits of Lutheranism and Communism have done their work well. Similarly, it is hard to reconcile Luther's tiny deathbed in Eisleben with our outsize sense of the man's historical stature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bach and Handel At the Wall | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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