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...Rothenberg says she chooses the scale of her canvases partly according to how much energy she has. This certainly seems true: the energy that gives her larger pieces such presence peters out in smaller pieces like Ghost Rug (1994), where eyes float mysteriously above a ground the toxic pink of Valentine's Day cupcake frosting...

Author: By Sarah Rotman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Blood and Guts: Susan Rothenberg's New Work | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...these are the exact qualities of the two most successful modern pieces in the exhibition. Jorge Pardo's untitled tapestry, one of three industrially fabricated in a Dutch factory, is by strict definitions a rug. Pardo also commissioned tapestries from a workshop in Mexico in where the weaving was done by hand but both techniques are given equal artistic creedance...

Author: By Teri Wang, | Title: Threads of Dissent | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Beatty expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of activism around these problems from the Democratic Party and asked, "Do we belong to a party that sweeps this stuff under the rug...

Author: By Benjamin M. Grossman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beatty Hints His Presidential Bid Unlikely | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...rated passer in the American Football Conference? That would be Seattle's own Mr. John Kitna, which if nothing else is proof that statistics do in fact lie like a rug, and while we might not want Bret Favre next to us in a foxhole (all those tears are hard on morale), he can quarterback our team anytime. Still, the Pack is looking more and more like the Green Bay teams of old (and we don't mean that in a good way), so count on Favre for anther slim win, and take the Seahawks and five and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NFL: On Top of the Covers | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...great, being in high school as a college student. But as much as I loved the kids--and every kid who appears in this scrutiny was indeed a sweetheart--I couldn't throw myself into another life the way I used to, onto the blue-and-white rug under the dining room table. I am old, I am cynical, and I am tired. I learned last week that I am a Harvard student much more than I had guessed. I cannot separate myself from this identity the way I used to float away from long division. In the fourth section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Editor's Note: Double Entendre | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

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