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...substance. Among these is the spectacular arc of Night and Day, 1984, half white and half black, a wooden effigy of the track of the sun. Especially there is the delicately ordered construction based on a nautilus shell, Bower, 1980. Its wooden web is as precise as the skeleton of an aircraft wing and yet is imbued with a promise of shelter: one would be happy to crawl inside it and rest. With this piece, Puryear's desire for an eloquence of craft and his interest in the metaphorical relations between architecture and sculpture were fulfilled early. He seems...
...message I always got from these lessons in the labeling of history was that eventually my fossilized skeleton was going to be squeezed and compressed towards the center of the earth where it would be sucked into the some unnatural and irrational void at the core of the planet. No wonder I became an English Major...
...positive development, it has to be seen as an in-house rescue program for a select few," says Arthur Helton, director of the refugee program run by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York City. It also remains uncertain how an embassy operating with only a skeleton crew -- most staff members have been withdrawn since the coup -- will process all of the claims...
...first period, Harvard's skeleton defense kept Cornell silent, while the offense went to work. The Crimson ended its woeful power-play drought when junior Steve Flomnehoft tipped in a Sean McCann wristshot goal...
DEAD AGAIN. Kenneth Branagh, Shakespearean phenom of the London stage, hatched an improbable hit from this no-star film noir. Branagh has fun ransacking Hitchcock's skeleton closet, and his wife Emma Thompson is ravishing as the doomed heroine, but there's not much here to prop up a preposterous plot...