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Everything works fine until Anna bumps into a painter named Leo Cutter at a local Laundromat and, she confides, "my world ripped apart." What started out as a tale of female independence veers into romance. Leo awakens Anna to feelings she has never known before: "I became with him, finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Custody the Good Mother | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

In watching the gaffes and errors committed by the K-School along the winding road to the award, we can't help but wonder just what they are teaching at the school. First, the medal was awarded without proper consultation with the committee in charge of the awards. Then, recoiling...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Mindlessly Besotted | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

Where else would Harvard President Derek C. Bok and a beer-besotted Michigan St. booster identified only as Ponzie forget their differences and join ranks--simply to cheer?

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: One Brief Shining Moment | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

It is as though the conditions that produce great art -- patience, internalization, ruthless self-criticism and an engagement with the authoritative past that goes deeper than the mere ransacking of one's culture for quotable motifs -- have been bleached out of current painting by the glare of its own success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Careerism and Hype Amidst the Image Haze | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

What sets Larry pondering the question of where he and the world are heading is the horror of World War I trench warfare. Mustered out, he rejects a career in the stock market and marriage to Isabel (Catherine Hicks), his bitchy, materialistic fiancée, in order to embrace the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thinking Big | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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