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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...count is the confluence of vectors--the square window with its two planes of blue sea and sky, the tabletop rushing away to the right at a shallow angle, the triangle of the arm propping the head, and the woman's left hand drooping over the upper arm, its slack spiky fingers echoed in the red-and-blue stripes of a cloth draped over the chair arm. All these angles, beautifully integrated, give the image an architecture that solidifies the passing moment, a firmness to which Hopper's diagonals pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: GOD IS IN THE VECTORS | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Getting Jackson's popularity turned around in the U.S. is a much knottier issue. While he remains a top star internationally--foreign sales of HIStory actually matched those from Thriller, the best-selling album of all time--his draw in America is still slack. Next year Jackson will be recording an album with Kenneth ("Baby Face") Edmonds, one of the hottest producers in the music business. Says an Alwaleed adviser: "We've got to make him hip again, and how you do that is all about perception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHAEL JACKSON'S ADVENTURES IN THE ARABIAN MAGIC KINGDOM | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...starting sweeper and that is a huge loss for us," Kelly said. "Hopefully, we'll be able to come together and pick up the slack for Lee, but he is pretty much our leader in the back so it will have an effect on our game...

Author: By Katherine E. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Soccer Rolls, 2-0 | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...Therefore I Slack...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HARVARD SLACKER | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...make them headless? Slack tells the BBC, "Imagine reprogramming an egg in such a way that it didn't form a whole embryo but it just formed the organ you wanted, plus the heart and circulatory system." Yes, this is no mad science, but simply organ transplant research ? just as Dr. Ian Wilmut originally cloned Dolly the sheep to create a better glass of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUESDAY: Don't Lose Your Head | 10/21/1997 | See Source »

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