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Students say a multi-media approach to visual art is uncommon in the VES department's offerings this year. Reichek, a New York City-based artist, requires students to find their own materials and allots each a budget of $250 to purchase them. For a recent "Trash as Art" project, Reichek showed slides and spoke about what contemporary artists have done in terms of turning refuse into art. She equipped students with reading selections and questions about the meaning of 'trash,' then sent them off to work on projects of their...
...interest. About 10% of those employed by such firms are 55 and over, notes Richard Wahlquist, executive vice president of the National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services. Some of the biggest industries looking for temporary professionals include law firms, engineering companies and information-technology firms. "It's not uncommon today to see companies looking for temporary CFOs or doctors or accountants," Wahlquist says...
...things, but not with surface questions. He asks extending questions: Why? What if...?" When the class studied the Russian Revolution, Tyler wanted to discuss what would have happened if the Romanovs had escaped: What if they had come back after the fall of communism? His writing also reflects an uncommon mix of the imaginative and the methodical. He prefers to write on deadline: "It feels like a deadline unlocks a chest where all my creativity is locked," he explains...
...When the weather changes like this, it is not uncommon to see things like colds more often," he said...
DIED. DANE CLARK, 85, actor and self-described "Joe Average" with an uncommon knack for portraying sympathetic tough guys; in Los Angeles. The no-nonsense, Bronx-born Clark, who found stardom playing sailors and soldiers in such World War II-era films as Destination Tokyo and God Is My Co-Pilot, also acted on Broadway and television. DIED. STANISLAV REMBSKI, 101, prolific portraitist with an economical style that masterfully evoked the spirit of his subjects; in Baltimore, Md. Among the best known of Rembski's 1,500 works were posthumous portraits of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, the latter...