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...dawn of human history, and Homo sapiens steps out from his cave to watch the rising sun paint the horizon. Suddenly he hears a rustling in the forest. His muscles tense, his heart pounds, his breath comes rapidly as he locks eyes with a saber-toothed tiger. Should he fight or run for his life? He reaches down, picks up a sharp rock and hurls it. The animal snarls but disappears into the trees. The man feels his body go limp, his breathing ease. He returns to his darkened den to rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress: Can We Cope? | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...Dole last week could count only 27 other Senators (including 24 of 54 Republicans) on his side, and three of them were uncertain. "I went down to the White House," he said, "to see how many they had. They did not have any." So Dole worked out his cave-in compromise with Kasten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feuding in the Family | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...Howard Sands (H) d Eric Riley 0-0 0-2 2 Warren Grossman (H) d John Sobel 6-0 5-7 6-2 3 Cave Beckman (H) d Dave Friedman 6-0 6-2 4 Rob Loud (H) d Rick Shafer 6-2 6-4; 5 Larry Scott d Glennis Merrit 6-1 6-3 8 Farley Weiss (P) d Ken Kleinfeld...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Sands and Scott Doubles Pair Sparkles As Crimson Dominates Quakers, 7-2 | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...were directed specifically against nuclear-freeze proposals, but that also seemed applicable to the INF bargaining, he asserted, "If one side seems too eager or desperate, the other side has no reason to offer a compromise and every reason to hold back, expecting that the more eager side will cave in first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hot Nuclear Exchange | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...having failed so far), which inspired Manet's Dead Toreador. The painting is a link between Caravaggio's shadow-theater and, through Salvator Rosa, the world of 19th century romanticism. It shows a young man in half-armor lying stiff and composed on the floor of a cave (some mountain charnel-house, perhaps) surrounded by rainy twilight and the glimmer of bones, with a curl of smoke still issuing from an extinguished votive lamp. A vanitas? A more personal lamentation? Impossible to say; yet there is more real feeling in this restrained image than in many a square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A City of Crowded Images | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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