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...lives, even if they are not there. We internalize the idea of being watched, of people seeing, judging and noting of us, to the extent that our behavior is controlled, but we are simultaneously victims and perpetrators. There is nowhere to hide. In short, Harvard is a pomo dream: you are who your friends are, where you go, where you eat. I'm sorry--for me, this doesn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Return to Cambridge | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...More pomo than paralegal, the Muji ushers in a bleak, meaningless future. But it's still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of the It Pen: Two Writers' Reflections | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...Randolph Hearst emptied Spanish monasteries. One section of the museum, called "Creation's Journey," displays such Heye treasures as the famous, blood-red Crow shield, featuring a haunting human figure incorporating the actual body of a stork, which figured prominently in a Crow triumph over the Cheyenne; a gemlike Pomo hummingbird-feather basket; and an exquisite ceremonial mask from the 19th century Pacific Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CULTURE: Of Spirit and Blood | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...disaster just to report baldly, so they would say "That frigid perel [cold rain, which resembles little pearls] made many white spots [dead lambs]. There'll be nemer croppies [no more sheep, which crop the grass] come boche season [boche, meaning deer, is derived from a Pomo word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Harpin' Boont in Boonville | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Workmen hung an enormous banner in Manhattan's Grand Central Station last week. Thousands of commuters who did not know a Pomo from a Pima, a Hopi from a Zuni, a Choctaw from a Cherokee, now knew that the long heralded exposition of Indian Tribal Arts had opened. The exposition's purpose is not only to show that the untutored mind of Lo! the poor Indian has produced a primitive art of the greatest importance for U. S. painters and designers, but also that among U. S. Indians there still are painters, potters, weavers and silversmiths doing important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ugh! Ugh! How! | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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