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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question touches on the mystery of Realist painting--how it is, for instance, that when looking close up at a Velasquez you see a flurry of gray-and-pink spots and streaks, and when you move back a couple of feet, that same patch has become a glistening silver embroidery on rose velvet. All of Close's art recalls his fixation on this effect, the brain seeking illusion in pattern, questing for clues: Close will break a face down into round dabs of oil paint (as in Self-Portrait, 1986), or spots of pastel, or even thickly textured platelets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Close Encounters | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...Here Comes Your Man," named after a Pixies song, chronicles the end of a relationship. In order to finish in time for the screenings of student films at the Carpenter Center (beginning May 7), Ross will spend endless hours cozying up to the Steenbeck, an editing machine whose giant silver spools and clicking knobs recall a technology-gone-bad episode of The Twilight Zone. But unlike many other thesis students who feel painfully committed to their machines, Ross can think of no other place he would rather be. "I can't even remember when I first knew I wanted...

Author: By Inie Park, | Title: BEHIND THE LENS | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

Though it specializes in leather jackets and jeans, 'Black and Blues' sells everything from vests to boots to silver jewelry. The selection is great and prices can't be beat, but the store is difficult to navigate. New and used articles inhabit the same racks, retro club-gear and draw-string linen pants hang side by side. Piles of shoeboxes appear randomly and without warning...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: S'HABILLER en noir | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...corruptibility--or even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak softly and carry a silver stiletto. They kill for sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gamut Of Mamet | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

Sporting a silver MedicAlert bracelet on herright wrist, Margaret talks hopefully about howher 11 medications might contain her seizures,depression and headaches. Almost everything ispaid by MassHealth, the state Medicaid program...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recipients Adapt to Welfare Reform | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

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