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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nuria crashes into a stone wall, killing herself and maiming Cesar. Lucky to be alive, he has lost his looks and his face is hideously disfigured. What was a straight-forward storyline before the accident now becomes hopelessly entangled, as Cesar's dreams, nightmares and fantasies are showed as if they were real. Unable to cope with his face, he tries wearing a mask and calls himself the "Phantom of the Opera...

Author: By Erik Beach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ojos: Window to the Soul | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...favorite photograph by far was "Yet Another Post-Modern Sunset," in which various bugs look over a stone wall at a vivid sunset of oranges and reds. Norfleet is simultaneously poking fun at both the post-modernists and herself. But she is also creating a striking contrast between the fiery imagery of the sunset and her final piece, "Untitled," where Norfleet's insects appear embedded in a glacier, with only a few appendages exposed to the light...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Red Sunsets, Emerald Beatles | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...confused by the labels in the grocery store: multigrain, stone ground, cracked wheat. What's important is the first item in the list of ingredients. You're looking for the word whole. If it says enriched or wheat flour, it's a refined product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Pasta | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...SWAT team. Patrick Ireland, 17, was shot in the brain and is partially paralyzed on his right side. He is likely to have enormous medical bills for years. If victims like him were to seek redress in court, it would take a jury with a heart of stone to send them home empty-handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Grief: The Lawyers | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

This school election suddenly turns into some-thing far nastier--a subversive parody of the American electoral process. Tracy wants to win for no other reason than to have another stepping stone to another contest (just like senators want to become vice-presidents, vice-presidents presidents, and presidents popular presidents). Paul is the people's choice--an unfit leader, a complete nincompoop--but the embodiment of American wholesomeness (insert various examples from the past decade here). And Tamil, Paul's sister, is the legitimate candidate. As she screams in her election speech, "No one cares about this stupid election...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scorching Election Wins in A Landslide | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

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