Word: note
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...statement, which was released yesterday by the ANC's American affiliate, takes note of recent reforms by the Pretoria government but advocates that Harvard divest in order to accelerate change...
...brink of adulthood, all elbows and knees and untested conviction. Four years. It goes so quickly, but who can tell them? On my last day, I steal out early, trying not to disturb my two roommates. Danielle sleeps clutching her black-and-white teddy bear. Jennie has left a note on her desk. Underneath her name she has drawn a smile face...
Then Shapiro began to move toward the human figure. This note is struck in the very first object in the Baltimore show, made in 1974, which from across the room (or in reproduction) looks like one of the abstract scatter pieces done by minimalist sculptors in the '70s -- Serra or Barry Le Va -- but is in fact an image of human dismemberment. Look closer, and the bits of wood turn ! out to be an artist's mannequin that Shapiro broke up in a fit of anger -- "I pulled it apart and just threw it around the room," he says...
...time Hollywood sometimes seems to have almost as many closeted skeletons as the Kremlin. Consider now the luxuriant scandal surrounding Paul Bern, an MGM producer who was found shot to death in 1932 shortly after his marriage to his prize star, Jean Harlow. A suicide note apologized for "the frightful wrong I have done you." MGM boss Louis B. Mayer tried to protect Harlow by spreading the word that Bern had been impotent and killed himself in shame. After a minimal investigation, the coroner's jury declared that Bern had committed suicide with "motive undetermined." End of scenario...
...told this pal that he had accompanied Mayer to Bern's house that first morning, and it was obvious that Bern had been murdered. Mayer was terrified of scandal. So Hendry volunteered to plant the gun in Bern's hand, and the two of them concocted the fake suicide note. A few days after hearing this bit of evidence suggesting that Bern was murdered by Millette, Marx telephoned Hendry's pal to check a few details and found that he too had just died. Cut to the closing credits...