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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There a photographer cap tured Mr. B. with the 8-ft. rara avis: certainly ballet's oddest couple since Nureyev teamed with Miss Piggy in Swine Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 12, 1981 | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...looks, Nevelson's style may be described as collage driven relentlesrelentlessly to excess, a cross between Catherine the Great and a bag lady: pailady: paisley scarves, blue work shirt, full-length chinchilla, OrientaOriental brocade, embroidered waistband, flounces, a rattling boar-tusk necklace and a black riding cap. (When Nevelson was picked as one of the twelve Best-Dressed Women by Publicist Eleanor Lambert in 1977, few of her acquaintances were surprised: there was, as one friend remarked, nowhere else to put her and no known way to ignore her.) "Personally, I'm dramatic, it seems," she told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculpture's Queen Bee | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

Many immigrants live in the United States for years, never doubting their eventual return to their native countries. But for some, the pressures of raising children who become steeped in American culture and prosperity delay their return. James and Carol Keaty point to their son, who wears a Patriots cap, and say they intend to return to their native Dublin in ten or fifteen years. James Keaty's reasons for immigration are hardly specific--"I came to see if I liked the place and I'm still here"--but he expresses a very specific purpose for his naturalization: "to vote...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: New Americans: Apathy, Hope and Freedom | 1/9/1981 | See Source »

That longstanding mutual admiration is a prime reason why the President-elect last week named Caspar Willard Weinberger, 63, to be Secretary of Defense. To some officials in Washington, "Cap the Knife" seemed an odd choice. The expenditure-cutting ax he wielded so zestfully first for Reagan in California and then for Nixon in Washington may gather some dust at the Pentagon, where Reagan plans a huge military buildup. Moreover, Weinberger's firsthand knowledge of weapons and military strategy apparently is confined to whatever he picked up poring over Defense Department budgets eight to ten years ago; his current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Team Player for the Pentagon | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...door, Demanding that they see you." He asks, "What're they here for? Is it the Third World Center? Is it a tenure dispute? Is it about those kiosks? Or maybe the shuttle bus route? Could it be the latest divestiture demand? Is it the Radcliffe Forum? our cap-and-gown stand? Whatever it is they're asking, whatever it is they want You tell them that I'll grant it--unless, that is, I can't. I've had the strangest dream last night, a dream of dire import; Ronald Reagan had become Santa Claus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Phantasm | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

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