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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which the students used to paint directly on the walls of the Fogg in the tradition of true fresco, according to Marjorie B. Cohn, curator of prints. The brainchild of former museum director Edward Forbes, it was colloquially known as the "Eggs and Plaster" course. Today, you can poke around in closets and corners of the Fogg and still find these creative student originals on the walls...

Author: By Rajni Rao, | Title: A RAUSCHENBERG WITH MIRO ON THE SIDE, PLEASE | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...catch a sense of Crichton, one must summon other failed physicians who ^ turned to fiction, though failed, perhaps, is the wrong word. Conan Doyle. More recently, Walker Percy. In The Moviegoer, Percy wrote of "the search." What's the search? Well, you poke about the neighborhood and don't miss a trick. Somehow, it all has to do with novelists trained in the field of science, men like Crichton who found science too unimaginative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Fiction's Prime Provocateur | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...Angeles film producer Michael Bershad recalled his car being pulled to the side of the road by a bright object. "I got out of the car and saw five guys under 4 ft. tall. They led me inside the craft." A leader examined him, opening up his back to poke around his vertebra. The extraterrestrials also extracted sperm. "I had a lot of shame," says Bershad. "It was humiliating and degrading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Came From Outer Space | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...STANDS AT THE CORNER intersection in front of the bank, bouncing up and down to keep warm. Skinny knees poke out of his ripped jeans in time to this curious dance, "Spaaaare Channnge!" He says that it's important to stand out from the other sellers...

Author: By Sonna Moon, | Title: For the MOMENT | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...wouldn't necessarily argue that voting booths be done away with and that church basements be replaced by Compuserve. But for those of us who are 3,000 miles away, automatic absentee ballots seem the least that technology can do for me. In the meantime, I'll poke a paperclip through some paper and hunt for a stamp...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: A Right, a Duty, a Privilege and a Chore | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

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