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...Louvre at first was only gold frames to me," Gertrude Stein once wrote. "In a way it destroyed paintings for me." By the early 20th century, artists and enlightened collectors were already beginning to do away with old-fashioned picture frames, with their gilded inlets and adamant pirouettes. Let painting be painting, they decided, without a competing spectacle at its own borders. This preference soon converged with Bauhaus notions of design, which enforced the modernist distaste for frills. By midcentury, the opponents of effusive framing had their ultimate triumph: the frameless wafers of abstract expressionism...
...Lynn Stein '86, recruitment coordinator for the drive, said that most people sign up because giving blood is "such an inherently good thing to do. "I don't know if [the competition] has been as big a draw as the basic need to give blood...
...past, Stein said, publicity efforts have included placing drive announcements in faculty pay envelopes...
Unsurprisingly, there were no Mondale coattails. Although the Minnesotan carried Manhattan in New York City with about 65% of the vote, Republican William Green, 55, a three-term incumbent, still managed to win in the so-called Silk Stocking District. Green and his challenger, Democrat Andrew Stein, 39, the Manhattan borough president, spent a total of $1,784,775, making theirs the costliest House race in the nation...
...state's outgoing Governor and chemical fortune heir. Last week Carper won the endorsement of the state's two dailies, the Wilmington News-Journal and the Delaware State News. In New York, Republican Bill Green, 55, continues to hold a lead over brash Democratic Challenger Andrew Stein, 39, in the race to represent Manhattan's prestigious silk-stocking district, though both sides acknowledge that the gap is narrowing. In Mississippi's Delta second district, where State Legislator Robert G. Clark, 55, is making his second try to become the state's first black Congressman...