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...plate of cake smashed in her face in early celebration of her 17th birthday tomorrow. After dinner, Natalie's mom braids their hair, brown and blond alike, into cornrows. "Whenever my mom used to braid my hair," says senior Ann Barnes, "she'd say the more it hurts, the prettier it is." A minute later, her light, silky hair in Ms. Rodriguez's firm hands, Ann turns beet red, clenches her teeth and yells out, "OOOUUUCHHH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friday: 6 P.M. Football Game | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...context is essential. In fact, The Laboratory of Modernity exhibition was actually organized to complement Eric Rentschler's Weimar Cinema class (German 155). The works themselves are usually not beautiful. Karl Hubbuch's drypoint, profile portrait of The Schaefer Sisters shows the ugly sister fastening a necklace around her prettier sister's neck. The sisters are ably sketched, but their averted gaze, their isolation on otherwise white paper, and the blunt utility of Hubbuch's composition combine to give the viewer a queer sense of detachment, which prevents wholehearted admiration while simultaneously intensifying the clarity of appreciation. Like most...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WEIMAR at the BUSCH-REISINGER | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...Like coach just said, 'It was ugly, but it'sbetter to win ugly than to lose.' The win's great;we're always happy with a win," Miller said. "Ofcourse it could have been prettier, but we'lldefinitely take a win over a loss or a tie anyday...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Zotter Goal Gives W. Soccer OT Win | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...other (when the duo received the Best Director Oscar jointly that year, neither acknowledged the other in his speech), but the child was beautiful. Russ Tamblyn's a dervish, Natalie Wood's a dream, and that finger-snapping? Gang war -- or Shakespeare, for that matter -- doesn't get any prettier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Side Potato | 7/31/1998 | See Source »

...National Book Award for Fiction, and The Crossing, published two years later, Cities tells the story of cowboy John Grady Cole and his trailmates as they drift south of the border to find respite from modern encroachments. The time is 1952, about when pickups started looking prettier than horses. The starting place is New Mexico, nursery to the atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thar She Moos | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

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