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...Their kid out there on the hill [Thom Serra] did a pretty good job against us, and I thought that their closer was one of the better kids we've seen all year," Walsh said. "He came in and had a pretty good fastball and a curveball. We just didn't do enough things throughout the ball game...
...sympathy and sincerest condolences to the families of Armando Alejandre, Mario de la Pena, Carlos Costa and Pablo Morales. --The Executive Board of the Cuban-American Undergraduate Students Association. Carlos A. Zumpano '96, President Elana Oberstein '97, Vice-President Sharon Lisitzky '97, Treasurer Ray Rasco '98, Secretary Mario Garcia-Serra '98 Joaquin Azino '98 Rudy Fernandez...
Nauman, beyond much dispute, is the most influential American artist of his generation. Born in 1941, he is of the same artistic age as Eva Hesse, Richard Serra and Susan Rothenberg (whom he married in 1989), but the artists whose work he most counts for are younger; it is safe to say that hardly a corner of the mix of idioms at the end of the 1980s, from video to body pieces to process art to language games of various sorts, escaped Nauman's influence...
...through this show one catches such premonitory notes, and one realizes what a big submerged effect Kline must have had on some of the better artists now alive: Richard Serra, for instance, whose dark walls of steel and thickly scrubbed-on black-crayon drawings evoke the same urban-industrial landscape that inspired Kline, or Brice Marden, or Cy Twombly, who lent this show a bunch of Kline's quickly brushed, frail sketches done on now crumbling pages of Manhattan telephone directories. These studies, not incidentally, dispose of the myth that Kline was a wholly spontaneous painter who staked everything...
When at last he flew to New York on Dec. 22 to face a meeting of angry bankers and fund managers, Serra found a roomful of sour expressions. To make matters worse, he lacked answers to many of the group's questions and bristled when asked why he hadn't resigned after having broken his promise to the financial community. "Everyone's been yelling and screaming all year for the peso to be devalued," says Kathleen Heaney, head of Latin American equity research at Bankers Trust. "But the way it was done really freaked people out. Wall Street doesn...