Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Truth be told, it's easier to look like Joe Mantegna than Joe Montana out there when you're surrounded by meatballs, and the polite sports term for the situation in both San Diego and Indianapolis is "rebuilding." And so, revealing the most compelling evidence of an afterlife since true believers saw the image of Jesus on a tortilla, the scheduling gods gave both the Chargers and the Colts a break Oct. 4 by having them play teams they had a prayer against--each other...
Other stories in our package examine, in a commonsense manner, theories on multiple intelligences, gender stereotyping, and learning in the first few years of life. Says special-projects editor Barrett Seaman, who oversaw the report: "These stories are designed to reveal the truth amid the hype...
...dozen of us sat in a circle on the floor with our babies, our attention focused on a woman strumming an autoharp. While none of us would openly admit it, the truth is we were all there hoping to give our children an edge. Why else would we sign up our newborns for a class called Sing 'n Dance? It hardly mattered that my eight-week-old daughter Rachel had not yet mastered holding her head upright and was nowhere close to rolling over. She was considered the perfect age for the weekly program that promised a meaningful learning experience...
...lives full-time in London. She is pleased to have conquered her own reluctance to appear in print as a poet, despite all the comparisons that await her work. And she wants to concentrate on the future, not her parents' storied past. "I can't ever know the truth," she says of her mother's suicide. "Why would I wish to dwell on it, when there is so much else in life...
Serra is more interested in truth than beauty. Particularly the truth of materials. The Russian Constructivists had a term, faktura, meaning the straightforward, logical use of substances--wood, tin, steel, rope, wire--to produce expressive effects on their own material terms. Serra is and always has been fanatical about this. He doesn't paint, polish, grind or otherwise fiddle about with his metal. It rusts naturally and bears the marks of its making, the scrapes, even the claw marks of the grabs that hoisted the plates. And yet these traces, which one might think would be brutal, acquire--given...