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This "winter design" gives the domestic furnishings of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland a common quality. It is a painstaking, brooding, almost mystical devotion to perfection in craftsmanship and thoughtfulness in art. The effort is focused on the home because for many snowed-in months there is no other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Century of Scattered Flowers | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

Reich's carefully crafted scores, meticulously notated in a small, clear hand, are the product of a Cornell philosophy major's search for systems and structures to support his musical vision. Although some of his music can seem as severe as his customary costume of unadorned white shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Heart Is Back in the Game | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

A strong brooding Parsifal highlights the Wagner festival

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lively Nights at Bayreuth | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

Director Robert Whitehead, who produced Medea in 1947, has not fired up other key actors. Paul Sparer's Creon is more like a pompous chairman of the board than a Corinthian king, and Ryan's Jason is a callow marital climber rather than the hero who brought home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blood Bath | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

At the same time, certain aspects of thinking can be identified without encompassing the entire process. The ability to comprehend, to conceptualize, to organize and reorganize, to manipulate, to adjust-these are all parts of thought. So are the acts of pondering, rationalizing, worrying, brooding, theorizing, contemplating, criticizing. One thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Mind in the Machine | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

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