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...daughter of silver screen legends Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Curtis said she appreciated an award coming from Harvard, with its rich history and intellectual prestige...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Honors Curtis, Woman of the Year | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...instance, one of her pieces is a long piece of metal wire strung through the eye of a needle. The little placard says that the piece is called Three Fathoms in a Thimble and made out of a "silver thimble drawn into wire and threaded through a needle." Eloquent, elegant, it clicks...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blow Up: Hypnotist-Collector Cornelia Parker Comes to America | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...times, Parker's verbal wit is the match that lights otherwise dull embers. Measuring Niagara with a Teaspoon, benefits greatly from her title and written explication--"Georgian silver spoon drawn to the height of Niagara Falls." Likewise, Measuring Liberty with a Dollar, made of a silver dollar drawn into a wire the height of the Statue of Liberty, is not primarily a visual experience. If we didn't have Parker's clever titles and explanations, one work might easily be cast aside as a messy tangle of wire, while the other, neatly coiled, has only some nice, simple formal qualities...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blow Up: Hypnotist-Collector Cornelia Parker Comes to America | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

Citing his distaste for "the inauthenticity of movies," LIAM NEESON announced last spring that he was quitting the film business. Ireland's favorite son quickly retracted his statement--Neeson can be found on the silver screen in the dark comedy Gun Shy, opening this Friday--but he seems to have found an acting role that suits him more comfortably: narrator. Neeson lent his husky brogue to the pbs documentary The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization, which airs Feb. 9, and taped a special introduction to the Feb. 13 episode of Touched by an Angel, which focuses on the relations of Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 7, 2000 | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...Silver...

Author: By S. E. Silver, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Writers Block Advo Parties | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

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