Word: shifts
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Jerry Marconi, a native of Nashua, N.H. spent most of the afternoon sitting across the street from a Newbury Street parking lot where Joe's Back Bay Restaurant called in the services of the Coors Silver Bullet van to set up a make-shift dance-floor/beer hall...
...system. "The combination of legal revisionism and residential segregation," we wrote, "is effectively ending America's bold attempt to integrate the public schools." This month the Harvard Project on School Desegregation issued an alarming update: the 1991-94 period, the latest for which statistics are available, saw the largest shift back toward segregation for blacks since the landmark 1954 desegregation decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. And black students are not the only ones to suffer increasing isolation. Notes education professor Gary Orfield, co-author of the study: "One of our most sobering findings is that the group...
...Shift supervisor Albert Philip of University Operations Services said that there was an "unconfirmed report" that a "lighted cigarette" started the fire...
Compared to the '95 Biennial, which featured such American greats as Richard Serra, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin and Cy Twombly, Phillips and Neri have placed more emphasis on newly emerging artists. This generational shift seems exceptionally welcome in light of the rather uncompelling contributions by the '97 Biennial's more well-known practitioners--including Bruce Nauman, Francesco Clemente and Dan Graham. A notable exception, Ilya Kabakov is one of the few older artists in the current exhibition whose seniority is reflected in the quality of his work. Perhaps overly ambitious for its context, his wistfull installation of a crumbling hospital...
...canceled a planned visit to the U.S. next month. The reason? President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore's announcement that they will meet Friday with Tung nemesis Martin Lee, Hong Kong's most outspoken proponent of democracy. TIME's William Dowell reports that the recognition represents a dramatic shift in the White House treatment of Lee. "For years, former secretary of state Warren Christopher had what amounted to standing orders to brush Lee off onto lower-level State Department officials during his visits to Washington." Tung had hoped to counter what he said were unduly pessimistic predictions about...