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The romantic fascination with the image of woman as sphinx, Medusa, castrator or remote, implacable goddess -the belle dame sans merci in her numerous fictive avatars-also figures in symbolist painting, especially in the world of Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), another member of Péladan's circle. Art...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Psychic Roots of the Surreal | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

In New Hampshire, 1,126 candidates have filed for 400 seats at the next state constitutional convention; ten years ago, there were so few candidates that 82 people won election with write-in candidacies. At last count 14 candidates were running for Congress from Ohio's 23rd district, near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD: Of Crisis and Confidence | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

In fact, Nixon's new game plan of an all-out fight against impeachment, coupled with White House efforts to depict the House process as a political vendetta rather than a judicial inquiry, is doubtless aimed at the vote of the House on the committee's finding. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Judging Nixon: The Impeachment Session | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

The jaws in question-vast, inexorable, connected not to a mentality but to an appetite-are those of cliche and crude literary calculation. The man pulling the string that makes the cruel teeth clack together is First Novelist Peter Benchley, 33, son of Writer Nathaniel Benchley and a grandson of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Overbite | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

"Looking at the world as I see it," he says, "I have come to believe that the cliche is right, that freedom and liberty are indivisible, that there is an intimate connection between U.S. support for dictatorships abroad and screwing people at home...I ask you, do we really need...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: For the Lives of Children | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

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