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...would probably be one of the loons that you grow accustomed to seeing around Harvard Square, one of those hypersensitive geniuses who, instead of becoming Einsteins, had slipped the other way, taking one too many acid trips back in 1965, and wandering around the Square ever since, babbling stray mathematical formulae on the street corners. Maybe it would even be Dryer Man, the guy with the electric hair who likes to sit on those big industrial dryers in the laundromat and get off on the vibes...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Acts of God and Other Co-Conspirators | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...result is a book that's nearly as indescribable as its subject. Flipping through its pages (and these photographs don't look as though they expect to stand still), you have to keep reminding yourself that you're not looking at stray limbs tooled soft as putty and clumped together like topological pretzels, but at human beings with only two arms, two legs, and one torso apiece...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Terpsichore, Tongue-in-Cheek | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...precise quality of air and of color, which he defines as "a personal memory: light with meaning." The dim, pale loveliness of damp sand, weather-streaked concrete, blue shutters on gray clapboard siding, flourescent light in evening air, sunbathers, a colonnaded seaside porch, tide pools and the stray formations of boats seen from above -- these are Meyerowitz's chief subjects. The necessarily smaller show at the Harcus Krakow Gallery has fewer photographs, but features, in addition, a few pictures of empty swimming pools and nudes, and two photographs from Meyerowitz's current project, commissioned by the St. Louis Art Museum...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Mirrors, Windows and Peaches | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

Clinging to a slim lead throughout the second half, a stray Harvard shot with over three minutes left gave Bentley, trailing by just a single point, the ball and brought the Bentley fans to their feet...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Hoopsters Knock Off Bentley, Netting First Win of Season | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Dennis Rainear, 26, of Midland, Mich., was thankful that he was alive. While running in a race to qualify for the Boston marathon, he was hit in the head by a stray bullet, did not realize what had happened, wobbled to the finish line, then was taken to a hospital, where the bullet was removed from his skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Season for Taking Stock | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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