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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times water and the shore were nothing but the playpen of high class society to him. Light mixes of baby blue and lavender reflect a magical violet and pink sky shining down on picnickers in sun-bonnets sitting under the shade of stubby saplings whilst a glow of yellow gold bathes the hillock rising up from the watery expanse. Vose Galleries deemed this, Picnic Overlooking the Harbor, as Farndon's most important work, and indeed his success in capturing a vision of paradise seems to have compelled him in many of his works only with incomplete and less satisfactory results...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Yankee Impressed | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...whilst all this hoopla works itself into a frenzy around us, it's too easy to shrug it off; after all, who wants to battle the novelty-seekers, the sales-people, the challenge of reading the wishes of your closest friends and relatives? If you had $1,000, of course, you could buy almost anything in the Square that struck your fancy. With $1,000, you could gauge just how much the Square is willing to offer you. Walk into a store and ask them to spend $1,000 for you. What you get is the finest sampling that Harvard...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Gifts for One Thousand Dollars | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

Everyone was dressed in dark tones, and the BBC World Service T-shirt I sported just didn't seem to fit the mood. Meanwhile my lissome friend glided through a sample of her theatrical network, whilst I was left to read the program. This done about 20 times, the lights started to dim, and that flustering thrill of the unexpected quieted...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...change. Thus far the evidence supports them. Only a few years ago, the government in Pretoria vowed to hold the racial line forever. Today it has come to recognize the inarguable truth that underlies all three books. George Bernard Shaw uttered it long ago, when apartheid was young: "Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupies the cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cries of The Beloved Country | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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