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With the death of Elizabeth Murray at age 66 on Sunday, America lost one of its smartest, slyest, most exuberant painters. Merv Griffin will get longer eulogies this week. But trust me, when The Wheel of Fortune is done spinning, she's the one who will matter a great deal more. And it's precisely at this moment, when so much of the fantasy offered to us by mass culture is calculated industrial product, in formulations arrived at by Hollywood or by whichever multinational is fine-tuning the next big video game, that her work feels especially important. She stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elizabeth Murray: Bringing Painting Back to Life | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...often masquerades as farce?these will abide to delight and possibly even haunt the future. Some distant day, audiences may even come to agree with a minority of Grant's contemporaries that he was not merely the greatest movie star of his era but the medium's subtlest and slyest actor as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Acrobat of the Drawing Room: Cary Grant 1904-1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...other instead of just smashing them together. “Let me show you my arms” gets repeated again and again in the song “Throw,” and it’s up to you to decide whether it’s the slyest of sexual advances or a nod to heroin abuse...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scritti Politti: Post-Punk Ecstasy | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...Master P lacks no talent in the marketing department. In a few short years he has built impressive brand identity, and every few weeks a new No Limit album by a previously little-known performer debuts in the upper reaches of Billboard magazine's album charts. One of his slyest techniques is to include in his CDs--like his current solo album, MP Da Last Don--promotional materials for his other records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Leash On Life | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...study of refrigerator pricing, invents IRAT and becomes exceedingly rich. He thus affronts the self-satisfied Cambridge community, where "no one has ever been known to repeat what he or she has heard at a party, only what he or she has said." This is the mandarin author's slyest satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funny Money | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

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