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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stiff, naive and curiously old- fashioned; they are almost exactly like the work that Raphaelle Peale, America's first still-life artist, had been doing around 1815. But Harnett hit his stride in the 1880s, and in fact the most beautiful painting in this show, The Artist's Letter Rack, dates from 1879: an image of letters, visiting cards and a theater ticket, the meager index of an artist's social life, held by a crisscrossed square of pink tape to an unvarnished pine board. Everything is actual size, and the flatness of the board corresponds to the flatness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reliable Bag of Tricks | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...assemble. But is not intended for mass production. "We were just giving our engineers a blank sheet of paper to see what they could come up with," says Mazda representative Tom McDonald. Too bad: just imagine put-putting to the airport and stowing your car in the luggage rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, Ma, No Wheels! | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

These days Rhonda is paying particular attention to how the magazine is displayed. "If I see a magazine other than TIME in a TIME rack, I think, 'How dare they!' " she says with an infectious smile. Does she quietly rearrange things so TIME is in its right place? She won't say, and you'll have to get up early to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Apr. 6, 1992 | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

Celia lives up to his modest expectations when she torments him, leaving the coat rack or the vacuum cleaner in front of the door on her way out. But her antics have a motive--her love for Martin; she uses the booby traps to retaliate against his apathy toward her. They complement each other well. That is, until Andy (Russell Crowe) comes along...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, | Title: No Sight, But Plenty of Sensation | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...like them." And cable executives discovered what they had already suspected -- that, in Werner's words, "a country music fan is not over 60 and does not wear bib overalls, drink Lone Star beer from a long-stemmed bottle and drive a 20-year-old pickup with a shotgun rack in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

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