Word: whippet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final painting in the show, finished just last month (too late for the catalog): Evening in the Studio. It shows the inside of the artist's London workplace, a medium-size and undistinguished room with blotched walls. There is an iron bed on whose thin, lumpy mattress a whippet sleeps. Next to the bed is a scrawny- looking girl with an angular face, sewing an ornate piece of Indian cotton whose green and red whorls cascade over her lap like the tendrils of an exotic plant, out of place in the drab surroundings. But it is not these things...
...apparent weakness into unorthodox strength. At Stanford that has proved to be something of a necessity. Walsh inherited a stout defense from his predecessor and onetime protege Dennis Green. The offense is a different story. With the exception of Glyn Milburn, an elusive back who runs like a scalded whippet, there is little team speed. After some thought, Walsh converted 250-lb. defensive end Nate Olsen, son of former N.F.L. star Merlin, into a blocking back, and sometimes uses 290-lb. tackle Jeff Buckey as if he were a tight end. "I never would have thought of that," says Stanford...