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...Tubes" is like a Baptist revival on Mars. Three mute, blue figures muck around at the messy crossroads of modern life, splashing around in paint to demonstrate chaos theory, attacking Twinkie's with power drills to re-examine such banalities as shrink-wrap, vacuuming the pathetic Christina out of Wyeth's "Christina's World." Frequent musical segments with deep primal bass lines and irregular-heartbeat drums overwhelm the audience in a purely sensory world, freeing them from the burden of too much thinking. Genteel Boston audiences have become devotees of the Blue Man Experience, tying on paper head-bands, singing...
...Wyeth-Webster house at 22 Garden Street has a particularly gruesome history. Its owner was John White Webster, a Harvard chemistry professor who killed and burned the body of his colleague George Parkman...
...sustained interest in artists who are prepared to make a life's work out of the challenge of imbuing real figures and objects with strong plastic meaning in deep space. There are a few exemptions, such as Philip Pearlstein, but that is all, unless you want to count Andrew Wyeth's Helgas, those goose-pimply feminine-hygiene ads that are to painting more or less what The Bridges of Madison County is to the novel. It seems that with the single exception of Thomas Eakins, who died more than 75 years ago, this culture has never produced a great painter...
...Baker and Boris Chaliapin, known collectively as "ABC." Of the three, Chaliapin was the most prolific, producing more than 400 cover portraits. ABC, says TIME art director Rudolph Hoglund, "were pioneers of a tradition" of recruiting distinguished illustrators for the magazine's cover art. Among them: Marc Chagall, Andrew Wyeth and Andy Warhol. We like to have our journalism keep that kind of company...
...periods themselves can also be longer, an average of 8 days of bleeding or spotting as opposed to the normal 5 days. These effects diminish after the first two years, according to the manufacturers. In addition, the cost, although less than that of oral contraceptives, will be considerable. Wyeth- Ayerst officials will not reveal the price until marketing begins in February, but some experts have estimated that the implant and the medical procedure together will run to about $500, as opposed to an average of $900 for five years of the Pill...