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...weren't for my swivel chair, it would have been a really...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: My Life As a Number | 10/15/1993 | See Source »

Leaning back in the swivel chair in his spacious new office, he is the picture of confidence--relaxed, nattily dressed in his blue blazer, starched white Ralph Lauren oxford and khaki slacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Go: HSA | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

Some of Horn's films, and videos of her performances, can be watched at the Guggenheim, but the main body of the show is sculpture: mechanized objects that pump liquids around, or reduce lumps of carbon to black dust with tiny pecking hammers, or swivel suspended binoculars in an anxious parody of disembodied inspection, or flap small wings. Some devices, slender granddaughters of Jean Tinguely's painting machines of the '50s, splatter paint around on the walls or (with more fetishistic suggestion) on women's shoes. No doubt to spare the clothes of the museum audience, these stay switched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mechanics Illustrated | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...back brace -- Goulet is two decades too old. Patricia Kies gushes out the girl Queen's politically incorrect ignorance and submission while appearing old enough to play Hamlet's mother. As Lancelot, Steve Blanchard sounds like the voice-over from a cartoon and cavorts with an odd hip swivel, as if ready at any moment to start dancing the twist. James Valentine's doubling of Merlyn and Pellinore is a camp extravaganza of twitches, nods, snorts and doddering. The best to be said for this Camelot is that it attracts audiences who do not often go to the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jousting At Memories | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

Once Dave has mastered the President's swivel chair (he has a tendency to tip too far back in it), he starts mastering the other instruments of power as well. Budget reform, an improved day-care program, a bold new jobs program, even the banishment of corruption -- all these he achieves by the simple assertion of guileless right thinking. He even manages to woo Mrs. Mitchell (Sigourney Weaver) out of the separate bedroom and angry silence into which her real husband has forced her to retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beltway Follies | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

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