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But nostalgia (plus an educated sense of cultural relativity) will bring anything back, and last week a fascinating exhibition entitled "Great Victorian Pictures: Their Paths to Fame," organized by Michael Harrison and Art Historian Rosemary Treble for the Arts Council of Great Britain, opened at the Royal Academy in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pictures from a Lost England | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Many of the menu-men are riding the wave of the so-called nouvelle cuisine, a form of culinary revisionism that has modified and simplified the classic, cholesterol-laden dishes of Caréme and Escoffier. It is not in fact all that nouvelle. Some 2,000 years ago, the Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love in the Kitchen | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

DIED. A.C. Bhaktivedanta (Swami Prabhupada), 81, founder and spiritual leader of the American Hare Krishna movement; after a long illness; at his temple in Vrindaban, India. The manager of a large pharmaceutical laboratory, the swami's life was altered when he met his own guru in 1922. After some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1977 | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Though Wallraff's lean, ascetic face has appeared on each of his six books and many magazine pieces, he undertakes no mysterious disguises. All he usually does is get a haircut, suitable clothes and new frames for his glasses. For the Bild Zeitung caper, he also shaved off his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Great Impostor | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

For a woman who had been decried as the would-be empress of India, it was a highly effective act of expiation. After a terse announcement (which guaranteed widespread publicity), Indira Gandhi last week set off on a pilgrimage to the ashram of Acharya Vinoba Bhave, 82, spiritual heir to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Deft Re-entry | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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