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...corner lies a new grave, the bare earthen mound not yet pounded flat by rain. A miniature Christmas tree, a few cheap ornaments clinging to its brown branches, adorns the tomb. Two tiny Santas in plastic bags, a mud- spattered price tag still attached, poke up out of the dirt. No plaque marks this resting place, perhaps betraying a neglect born of the longing to forget...
...ever devoted to the field until last December. Then the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis mounted "Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History." The rich, exhaustive exhibit -- consisting of some 1,200 mass-produced messages on paper and tin and plastic generated between 1829 and 1990 -- has now been shipped to New York City, where it is on view at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art through April...
...Excuse me," says a tall gaunt man, tapping Voci on the shoulder. A red paisley tie hangs around his head and a brown around his neck; he carries a plastic bag from the Vassar gift shop and wears fuzzy purple mittens on his hands...
Rather than obey a judge's order to allow her daughter to visit her father, plastic surgeon Elizabeth Morgan sent the girl into hiding and spent more than two years in a Washington jail. Now Hilary Foretich, the seven-year-old girl at the center of one of the most bitter and highly publicized custody cases in memory, has been found in Christchurch, New Zealand...
...York City, the U.S. media capital, has become a metropolis where most of the newspapers offer not just one gossip page but three or four. They feature glimpses of everyone from sitcom heroes and sports stars to obscure if self- important entertainment and publishing executives, social-climbing plastic surgeons and dress designers, deposed royalty, offspring of ousted dictators and legions of the nouveaux riches or, rather, nouveaux gauches...