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...black toaster-sized machine, which features a rectangular green screen, asks students to rate various aspects of their dining experience on a scale...

Author: By Ilana N. Kurshan, | Title: Box Asks Students' Opinions of Food | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

...turned into an inn by some of Carnegie's descendants. Oliver and Mary Jo Ferguson, the husband and wife who operate Greyfield, are old friends of the Kennedys', and John and Carolyn had visited them several times. The rehearsal dinner and reception were held at the inn, a great rectangular frame house surrounded by oaks, and several in the wedding party stayed there. Janet Ferguson, Oliver's sister and a jewelry designer, is another good friend of the Kennedys', and made the couple's rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BY GEORGE, HE GOT MARRIED! | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...newly opened site encompasses the remains of 11 pyramids, some of which were built 700 years after Snefru's reign, and many smaller rectangular mausoleums, known as mastabas. But it is Snefru's spectacular constructions that dominate the horizon. Most Egyptian kings gave themselves only one pyramid; Snefru built five, three of them at Dahshur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: THE SECRETS OF SNEFRU | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...second installation, "The Veiling," is similarly far more tactilly complex than the supposed "message" intended by the work. "The Veiling" consists of a series of gauze shrouds hung in parallel rows from one end of a small dark room to another. Video projectors hung at either end of the rectangular room each project a different image, and as each image is diffused through each successive shroud to the point at which they meet in the center, the images get increasingly indistinguishable. The curator's notes claim this is a statement on "gender". To apply such a clinical, stalely academic categorization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill Viola's Vision Illuminates at ICA | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

...presumably made by Baruch himself. The second is an analysis that claims to fix the precise location where the Ark of the Covenant (the "Lost Ark" of Raiders fame) was stored. That's sure to be controversial; the author contends that it must have been placed in a rectangular indentation on the outcropping beneath the Dome of the Rock, the sacred Muslim shrine on the Temple Mount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Bible's Stories True? Archaeology's Evidence | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

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