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...Hold Still - Keep Going, a reference to Frank's to-and-froing between fixed images and movies, the exhibition indicates he also has doubts about the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. Many of his photos require them, or at least he has felt compelled to scratch words across their grainy surfaces. An example is his profile of a naked woman standing before a flickering television. Scrawled across the photo is the imperative: "4AM MAKE LOVE...
...school-flashback factor, getting to watch alliances form and shift and disintegrate according to social winds none of us have ever fully understood. There's the simple lure of schadenfreude, getting to cackle on the couch as 16 Real, Ordinary People are stranded far from civilization and have to scratch, claw and starve their way to 15 runners-up and one winner. (And there's the "bah" factor. "Bah," we say. "Can't these people even catch a fish...
...friendly adaptation of the Mark Twain story, if not quite the "Saturday Night Live" parody its ubiquitous ads promised ("Hey, Tom Sawyer!"), is a second-rate refugee from summer stock. Don Schlitz has written music with a country twang but cornball lyrics ("He?s full of that old scratch /Impossible to catch"), and the odd, earth-toned sets make this Mississippi River town look like something the Pharoahs built. The show does rev up some lively melodrama in the second act, with an exciting cave climax that kids might enjoy. But this show has little to attract paying adults - unless...
...disturbance the protest has generated. It is also running out with respect to the few remaining days of the Rudenstine administration. PSLM would be better off participating in a committee process now rather than waiting until a change in administration to start the negotiation process over from scratch. This issue will not be resolved before Rudenstine’s departure as president, but it is in PSLM’s interest to set the road map as soon as possible. PSLM should therefore make Mills Plus the focus of its efforts...
...They had to start from scratch-figuring out the number of workers who earned below the living wage...