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...around and try to seduce one another's wives. Steam baths, massages, the camaraderie of the locker room. They could shoot pigeons and get drunk, and now and then they could pretend to have one of their flunkies taken out and shot. Or better yet, the victim could just vanish, without explanation, without a trace. The good old days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Island of the Lost Autocrats | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...damage has already been done this fall. Roger Maris would have been more than willing to give up his asterisk for the sake of Harvard students anytime. Better yet, may the registrar--and the students--of this college never permit valuable January days to vanish in the future...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: A Cruel Omission | 2/18/1986 | See Source »

Dewey added that plans are also tentative as to whether the Veritones will be Class of '89 group, a freshman group, or will vanish after this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Move Over, Kroks and Dins: Here Come the 'Veritones' | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

...small pieces in this show to be, in the end, fatiguing; but it is not, thanks to Schwitters' dedication to reinventing a surface with each collage. His favorite matrix was the grid of cubism, a shallow, divided skin on which the scraps of paper and little objects surface and vanish, overlapping like leaves on a forest floor. He called them all "Merz" constructions: the name was a fragment of a printed phrase advertising the Kommerz-und Privat-Bank, but it became generic. In these works, cubist ambiguity, constructivist utopianism and a sweet irreverence that was entirely Schwitters' own are knotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Urban Poet | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Amid his rhetoric about growth and innovation, Bush also emphasized importance of risk taking. He told Teradyne of his entree into the work off-shore oil drilling. Bush and backers sank millions of dollars invasive rig. which promptly vanish a hurricane...

Author: By David S. Hilzenn, | Title: Beating Around the Bush | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

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