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Marsalis opened his address with a discussion about the function of art in everyday life. As the audience laughed, Marsalis acted out his playground episodes of storytelling, explaining, "That's art. It's re-creation...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marsalis Performs, Teaches Jazz | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...evil attractive? Yes, I think that's very true. Harry has seen the kind of people who are grouped around this very evil character. I think we'd all acknowledge that the bully in the playground is attractive. Because if you can be his friend, you are safe. This is just a pattern. Weaker people, I feel, want that reflected glory. I'm trying to explore that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Scare | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...death as well as life into her art. Several of the earliest pieces in the show convey Neel's struggle with the death of her daughter Santillana. "After the Death of a Child" (1927-28) is an especially haunting watercolor: children dressed in red and blue appear on a playground, fenced off from the adults in the black and gray street who have been reduced to figures out of Munch's "Scream"-both elongated and hunched with hollow eyes. Shortly after the burial of her father, a railroad clerk, Neel painted "Dead Father" (1946): a gentle-looking man, slightly...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Ask Alice: Alice Neel's telling portraits of friends, family and art-world types | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

Besides the building itself, they say, the current location is across the street from Dana Park, which has green space and playground equipment...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bursting at the Seams | 10/11/2000 | See Source »

...until 2004 and only in fourth, eighth and twelfth grades), Bush would go a step further, requiring states either to test kids every year from third through eighth grade or lose 5% of federal aid. At least on the testing issue, W's the toughest kid on the playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Test and Test Not | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

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