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Just as clear, though, is the memory of Duncan, disappearing into traffic along the baseline and reappearing underneath the basket, drawing the foul as he shoots...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Out of the Shadows | 3/14/1985 | See Source »

...pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food. This insistence, this feeling of a world trying to burst from the canvas, is epitomized in one detail of the Supper--the basket of fruit, perched on the very brink of the painted table and ready to spill its contents at one's feet. Later, Caravaggio would learn how to combine poses seen in real life with those sanctified by tradition: hence the contrast achieved in the Louvre's Death of the Virgin between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of the Gesture | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...senior guard took a beautiful over-the-basket pass from junior Arne Duncan and cut the visitors' lead to three, 99-56, with 36 seconds remaining in the game...

Author: By Marse B. Morris, | Title: Carrabino Shatters Scoring Mark | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

...four of the cagers' main frontcourt players--Anna Collins, Sharon Hayes, woody Joseph, and Beth Chandler--are strongest away from the basket. And all except Chandler rarely score from the lane except an offensive rebounds...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Those Charity Stripe Blues | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

...autobiography that Fevvers tells to the skeptical Walser is, except for the business about the wings, standard 19th century melodrama. It begins with the heroine abandoned in a basket on the steps of a London brothel. A Cockney prostitute, noticing the downy lumps on the infant's shoulders, accidentally gives the foundling a surname: "Looks like the little thing's going to sprout Fevvers." Years pass, and the child earns her innocent keep about the house by posing as Cupid in the drawing room, while commercial sex flourishes around her. Then comes puberty and the improbable onset of pinions. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Wings of a New Age Nights At the Circus | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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