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Jones added that the project's slogan, "Sew to Speak." may intimidate men or any people who do not feel confident with a needle and thread, but that all ages and sexes have contributed. Grodzina said that she has arranged for all the members of her son's third grade class to create a segment...
...weavers, Helena Hernmarck, has set herself totally against this modern orthodoxy. Hernmarck weaves an unabashed photorealism, often actually working from photographs. This may sound like kitsch. But when observed and contemplated day in, day out, Hernmarck's transformations of photo images into large wool, linen and cotton thread weavings are often stunning and always pleasurable artistic experiences. They are, in fact, a sort of return to the pictorial tapestry tradition of the Renaissance...
Bankers got many of their current problems the old-fashioned way-they earned them. Says William Isaac, chairman of the FDIC: "The common thread in the industry's troubles is bad management. You can get away with a fair amount of poor management when the economy's in good shape, but if the economy turns sour, as it did in 1981-82, your mistakes are magnified." This does not mean that all bankers have turned into casino gamblers. "I don't think that bankers as a whole have become reckless," says Carlos Arboleya, vice chairman of Barnett...
...computer revolution. He traces the history of hackers from M.I.T.'s Tech Model Railroad Club, their first mecca, to Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club, an early microcomputer gathering spot, to a video-game factory in Coarsegold, Calif. Through it all he discerns a common thread: the unspoken assumption among crack computer programmers and engineers that they could straighten out the world by dint of their intelligence if they could only get their hands on the control...
With his squad's title hopes hanging by a thread, Harvard Coach Joe Restic called on the injured White...