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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even more impressive is Osiris and Isis. According to Egyptian mythology, the god Osiris was murdered and dismembered by his brother Set. All the parts of his body except the penis were then reassembled for burial by his sister- wife Isis, so that he could have eternal life. An immense liturgy of transformation grew from this myth, and Kiefer uses it to connect primal fertility rites to the no less awful mysteries of nuclear technology. The painting is filled by a gigantic step-pyramid, the site of Osiris' burial but also, by implication, a nuclear reactor. Osiris' body parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Germany's Master in The Making | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Knocked off by her sister Demer in straight games in the semifinals, Harvard's jenny Holleran finished fourth overall. Both Marianna Chilton and Lucy Miller also lost in straight sets, in the first round, but still tied for seventh place overall...

Author: By Martha C. Abbruzzese, | Title: Racquetwoman Edge Topped at Princeton | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...like the music is one thing and I am another," she says. "We're both very much connected. I sing about my feelings and my truth." She has written some fine songs in the past, including (uncredited until 1984) the Stones' Sister Morphine, a jagged bit of Faithfull autobiography, and three cuts on her formidable 1979 album Broken English. But on Strange Weather she has put together a self-portrait from random sketches by such diverse artists as Jerome Kern and Bob Dylan. She makes the Otto Harbach/Jerome Kern Yesterdays into a devastating diary of faded hope and turns Dylan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Holding Tight, Letting Go | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

When Blanche (Ellen Bledsoe) comes to New Orleans on a "temporary" visit to her sister Stella (Holly Cate)--whom she has ignored for several years--the situation is not a pretty one. Blanche seems on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and the change of climate from Laurel, Mississippi to New Orleans squalor does her no good. And when she meets her brother-in-law Stanley (Andrew Gardner), a tough and muscular man who instantly sees through her pretense, things get even rougher...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Southern Discomfort | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

Nicole Engh, sister of captain Michele, and Anne Hardy are both all-around swimmers who can earn points in many events, including the individual medley. Indiana native Mary Ruppe is another freshman with strength in many strokes. Lisa Bowman should help the Crimson in the distance freestyle races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Looking For NCAA Birth | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

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