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...wonderful. She barely looks at the camera, focusing on what is real in Rachel's life, her children, her husband, her friends. Every gesture she makes seems unconscious and unplanned. When she feeds her child, spooning food out with one hand and absentmindedly letting the infant suck the mush off the other, Streep ceases to act and begins to live on the screen...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Heartache in Washington | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

When did Harvard drop its standards for honoring people, especially at the K-School? This award diminishes the value of every honorary degree and award Harvard grants. The motive here is transparent; Harvard wants to suck-up to Ed Meese and the boys of Justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meese | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...next morning on the flight line, these guardian angels suck in liters of pure oxygen, trying desperately to burn the alcohol out of their system before take-off time. Sure, you might die, but you're living life the way it's got to be lived...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Driving Them Off the Road? | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

...Suck my imagery...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: A Section in Hell | 3/18/1986 | See Source »

...devices associated with expressionism"--but no more than that. He objects to being tagged as a neoexpressionist. "Whatever else it is about," he insists, "my work is not about the self. I want to get at something outside myself; one gets sick of looking at indulgent expressionist pictures that suck all the air out of the room." He prefers to think of his paintings as "diagrams that describe the way the world works," but one has to take this with a grain of salt. Actually, they come as much from minimal abstraction as from botany. The first time Winters painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Obliquely Addressing Nature | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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