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LUGE Singles competition for men and women, doubles race for men on small wooden sleds which have canvas or braided plastic seats. Same course as for bobsled but with more steeply inclined starting ramps. Best combined time for four runs wins singles; best time for two runs wins doubles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Short Guide to All the Action | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Nail Bank. Like an artist preparing a canvas, the manicurist usually starts by strengthening and lengthening the nail with a special cement. The painting is applied on top of a layer or two of lacquer and is then covered with at least five protective coatings. The artwork will stay in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Fingernails: Pop (and Mom) Art | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

The Hindenburg contains many beautiful, technically ingenious shots showing a model of the great airship sailing majestically through all sorts of weather and cloud conditions. It also contains many lovingly detailed re-creations of the craft's interior-the elegantly appointed public rooms, the bridge, the 804-ft.-long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gasbag | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

The mammal department itself is a rectangular oasis of light and better air at the rump of the museum, which you only come upon after a confused trip through the intestinal corridors that wrap themselves around the gray floor-to-ceiling cases and racks. The mammal room is also the...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Platypus Crackers | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

THE STUDIES from "Newtonian Disks", which follow that painting in sequence down the ramp of the Guggenheim museum, blend almost imperceptibly into studies for "Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors." This painting is too large to be hung where it should chronologically be placed; one has to descend in suspense through...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Reflections in a Mirror | 12/16/1975 | See Source »

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