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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After leaving Matthews, the suspect allegedly crossed the Yard to Weld Hall where he tried to enter through a window by cutting the screen. The attempt was unsuccessful...

Author: By Ivy C. Pochoda, | Title: Man Burglarizes Matthews Hall | 12/8/1995 | See Source »

Watching the animated abstract films at the Harvard Film Archive this weekend will not be easy. Over the course of five days, 70 years' worth of work--140 films by dozens of artists--will dance across the Carpenter Center screen. The reward for dipping into this impressively curated and unique retrospective is an experience which skates away from verbal description...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: From Bauhaus to MTV: Forging the History of Abstract Film | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

...fore runner. Brakhage hand-paints 8, 16, 35 mm and Imax film stock sometimes using a technique which lets him paste translucent objects onto the film. Brakhage seems to tap into a deep level of emotion by projecting his tiny, beautiful swirls of color onto the large screen. The breathless tension of these intimate films reveals the influence of Davis work...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: From Bauhaus to MTV: Forging the History of Abstract Film | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

EVEN BEFORE HER ROLE OPPOsite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard made her a movie star, there was something cinematic about Whitney Houston. Her life has been big time and big screen. The daughter of gospel and R.-and-B. singer Cissy Houston, she began at the top with her 1985 debut album, Whitney Houston, and has sold 80 million records worldwide since. Her sweet lyrics (Didn't We Almost Have It All) recall the classic romances of Hollywood in the 1940s; her adventurous vocals (in songs like her majestic megahit I Will Always Love You) have the grandiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITNEY HOUSTON: NO MISS PRISSY | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...action picture but to make a subtler point about cinematic violence: "Throughout the movie, he gives us a vision of Los Angeles that goes beyond the usual sheen-and-scuzz contrasts it amuses most directors to observe. His L.A. is a void, a blankness, something like an empty movie screen, or an empty modern soul, waiting to be filled up with that most hypnotic of abstractions, violent action. This, he's saying, is what some of us are good at. And, all pieties aside, look how much we like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . HEAT | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

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