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...Wood-frame houses are traditionally consideredearthquake safe, according to Ekstrom, but many ofthe buildings that fell in the California quakewere wood-frame...

Author: By Julie H. Park, | Title: Harvard Earthquake Experts Evaluate L.A. | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

Still, according to her coach Evy Scotvold, the nurturing and support Kerrigan receives has bred some immaturity and insecurity. "She's a very dependent person," he says. It was not until 1992 that Kerrigan moved out of her parents' wood-frame home in blue-collar Stoneham, Massachusetts. But last week, when Kerrigan wasn't doing her daily round of physical therapy and hydrotherapy sessions, she was home with her parents in Stoneham, with all the world camped outside. Asked at a snowy press conference what would make a happy ending to her story, Kerrigan made no mention of medals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skater Tonya Harding: Tarnished Victory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...barriers of the canvas and expanded the field of space in order to create large planes of pure color--or in this case, pure shades. Louise Nevelson blurs the lines of sculpture and painting in Study for Sky Covenant (1973) and Total Totality. She frames numerous, irregular shapes of wood pieces and paints them black. Because of the different textures, angles, and spaces of these forms, different shadows are created and provide the works with interesting color and tones...

Author: By Mark Roybal, | Title: Significant `Shades' | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

...essays for the seventh time, we apologize. (Reading period's tough on all of us.) For those of you laying your callow eyes on this for the first time, you can take these lessons to heart. (The system apparently hasn't changed too much since 1950, and while Natalie Wood and Social Relations have gone the way of the buffalo, O.A.'s and A.G.'s have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

...chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of psuedofacts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

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