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A melancholy fog shrouded the moors the night Lord Edgar brought his bride to Mandacrest. Portents of dread creaked in every dank corner of the ancient manor. The bride's sepulchral maid remained loyal beyond the grave to the first Lady Hillcrest, whose portrait was known to bleed when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tour de Farce | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

Soon the loons of the north country will begin to change color. All summer they have been got up gorgeously, like pool-hall hustlers. The back, a tessellation of white speckles on a canvas of black, will turn gray-brown. The jet-black head and bill will go dull gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Looking Out for the Loons | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Although the violence of car crashes is grimly depicted in Carlos Almaraz's expressionistic, fiery canvas Beach Crash, other artists are obsessed more with the auto's effect on collisions of male and female. E.E. Cummings describes the delicate and bittersweet technique of breaking in a new car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Auto-Intoxication in Los Angeles | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

As the show repeatedly indicates, artists have contributed little to the design of the automobile itself. Architects, though, have occasionally gone to the drawing board to produce their visions of a well-designed vehicle; in 1928 Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret proposed a clever small car that was never produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Auto-Intoxication in Los Angeles | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

A newly nominated, newly ebullient President Reagan was also eager to tell his story, in this case to Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey. Sidey has had more than 200 interviews with seven incumbents, starting with Dwight Eisenhower in 1957. "Talking to a President should always be memorable and interesting," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 3, 1984 | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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