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Tapestry was to northern Europe what fresco was to Italy, or the refulgent gold-leaf screens of the Momoyama period were to the dark castle interiors of 16th century Japan: the main form of large-scale decoration. Moreover, it had two advantages that fresco did not possess: a duke could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wool for the Eyes | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

Divorcing herself from that life, as well as from Millionaire George Brokaw, whom she describes as a "Fifth Avenue Beau Brummel," she became managing editor of Vanity Fair, one of the smartest magazines of its day, in 1933. A year later she quit to write on her own, and in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Women's Woman | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

Techniques for preserving the brain will probably be developed before similar procedures for an entire human. Already, physiologists have succeeded in preserving a cat's brain and reviving it, getting normal activity as measured by an EEG. Development of techniques for making contact with a free-floating brain are a...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: Suspended Animation and Other Delights | 4/27/1973 | See Source »

IT'S A BORING TECHNIQUE. And boredom--a tense Godot-like waiting, the boredom of the recurrent cycle--is an essential fact of life in the cylinder. The wandering is circular. The pulsing of light and fluctuation of temperature form a cycle that is agonizing both in its recurrence and...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: 'If This Notion Is Maintained' | 11/15/1972 | See Source »

Even as he draws near the final condition to which the cylinder is doomed, Beckett is willing to grant but an instant of irony: the admission that "in this old abode all is not yet quite for the best." Then, soon, the last searcher ceases searching and joins the ranks...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: 'If This Notion Is Maintained' | 11/15/1972 | See Source »

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