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Everything in Hamilton's show follows from that statement. Inside the pavilion, the high white walls are covered with Braille that translates tales of American violence from Charles Reznikoff's poetry book Testimony: the United States, 1885-1915: recitative. Down the walls, bright fuchsia powder, with its overtones of toxic waste, falls from tanks hidden in the ceilings. The artist's recorded voice whispers Lincoln's second Inaugural Address, with its moving call for healing during the savagery of the Civil War, but it too is interpreted, spelled out in the phonetic alphabet used by pilots (Alfa for a, Bravo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Codes And Whispers | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...best international artists. The video, about living "in the absolute present," as Aitken, 31, says, features the throbbing music and quick cuts more in tune with the MTV generation. But at least one visitor appreciated the languorous charms of Hamilton's show. There, in a mound of pink powder, an admirer had scrawled a single word: bellissimo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Codes And Whispers | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...fall, Rove was in steady contact with operatives in key states, asking veterans whom to call, whom to meet, how to make approaches and what they were hearing. His line to them was the same: "Keep your powder dry." It was too early to ask for a commitment, but with those four words, the Bush team froze dozens of fund raisers and organizers in place so no other candidate could win them over. Robert Bennett, the Ohio party chairman, recalls the early feelers from Rove that summer. "They weren't ruling it in; they weren't ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Chose George Bush? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...parents raised me well enough so that I never felt the need to go on a shooting spree. If people were more involved with their kids and quit blaming pop icons for everything, we might be able to solve the problem before more lives are tragically lost. TRACY COCHRAN Powder Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1999 | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...here's the lowdown on just how bad it really is. The odds of having a heart attack jump 24-fold during the first hour after taking the drug. That's true even for folks who don't seem to be at risk for heart disease. Apparently the white powder constricts coronary arteries and sends blood pressure soaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Jun. 14, 1999 | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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