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...tree-ness and does not become mere timber, raw material. Abakanowicz preserves the body of the tree, and then she fits this body with metal shells, prongs and armatures, sometimes binding it as well with strips of burlap like mournful bandages. Thus you find yourself looking at something large, somber, mutilated and of irresistible physical power. Brenson points out that the War Games pieces are all, in some degree, elegiac; they convey a mourning for < violated nature, because nearly all the forests of Poland have been cut down and sold off as timber to Scandinavia since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Visions Of Primal Myth | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...said, "The same outrage expressed when we are confronted by race or sex discrimination must be voiced to expose the difference between how physical and mental illnesses traditionally have been viewed." She can be outraged, but part of her appeal is that she can be serious without being somber. As she sits in a wing chair sipping Mountain Valley spring water in her high-ceilinged office filled with evidence of the two interests in her life -- psychology books and a gallery of her photos -- she is happy to be here, working at her first full-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cause of Her Own | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...experience of the raw play of unmitigated camp has always been tainted with a somber awareness of the seriousness of the eighties, specifically the epidemic which began in 1981. As it silently and invisibly roared through the discos, the cabarets, the bars, and the community at large, the unsuspecting party continued, but when people began to get sick, the campy seventies faded into a short lived dream of the past...

Author: By Adam J. B. lane, | Title: New Notes on Camp | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni said he was "pleased" with last night's results, and few in the Harvard men's hockey team's locker room seemed overly somber after...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Notes From the Front | 3/6/1993 | See Source »

...deans. One of the elder faculty members at Andover has commented that the school has lost a great deal of its former stuffiness, and that he believes the school has developed a sort of delightful "sassiness" that contrasts sharply with the red brick, granite steps, and somber wood paneling...

Author: By Allen C. Soong, | Title: The New-Boy Network | 2/26/1993 | See Source »

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