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Several inanimate objects, such as a painted stick and a conch shell holy to Astarte, travel across country by magic, talking lengthily about the follies of mortals in passages that are as cute and irritating as you would expect. Satire is intended, but the jawboning has no bite. The viewpoint Robbins is searching for seems to have chewed through its leash and wandered off well before Chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faded Jeans SKINNY LEGS AND ALL by Tom Robbins | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...column crowed that "terrific, sexy" actor Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for Red October) was "busy, busy" and that Ava Gardner's grave had been stripped of flowers by fans. Observed the columnist without a smidgen of irony: "The price celebrities pay for their success is a lack of privacy." Bite your tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Liz Smith | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

After the lecture, you'll find yourself in a house dining hall for your complementary lunch. Don't shy away from institutional food; it usually doesn't bite back. And whatever you do, don't shirk your culinary duty by taking your son or daughter to a fancy restaraunt in the Square. This is the surest way to maintain a blissful oblivion concerning the squalor of college eating. Your children are what they eat, and as a parent, you have a right to know what they're becoming...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: An Enlightening Weekend | 3/3/1990 | See Source »

Either plan -- a broad capital-gains cut or liberalized IRA deduction -- would cost a fortune. (A bargain capital-gains tax rate would shake loose revenues at first as investors sold to take advantage of it but in the long run come back to bite us.) So it may be that given the deficit, we can afford neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: A Tax Cut That May Truly Cost Nothing | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...first important figure of a black in American art is in Copley's Watson and the Shark, 1778. The black has just thrown a line, without avail, to naked Watson, who wallows helplessly in the green waters of Havana Harbor as the shark charges in to bite his leg off. As McElroy observes, the outstretched arms of Watson and the black "mirror each other," and it may even be that Copley meant Watson's presence in the water to remind us, by reversal as it were, of the slavers' practice of dumping dead Africans into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two Centuries of Stereotypes | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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