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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although each artist has been individually acclaimed on the merit of his or her own work, the Evans influence is unmistakable, especially when there is such close available comparison. This is not to say, however, that while influenced by the same man, the photographers appear in any way related to one another. Arbus's portraits of human oddities bear little resemblance to Alston Purvis' color details of plain doorways and windows other than the similar oblong shape of their frames. As the catalogue to the exhibit states, "Each one saw a slightly different side to the man, and Evans...

Author: By Lisa C. Hsia, | Title: Intricacies of the Art | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

...missed the Barry Manilow concert, huh? You and the rest of Chem S-20. Not to worry--even though tickets were as scarce as a fresh piece of bacon at Elsie's, I'm close personal friends with the north goalpost, you see, and he slipped me in past the police guard shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: But Seriously, Folks... | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

...cuts is typical. In the House he voted against the B-1 bomber and the neutron bomb, but also opposed efforts to cut defense-related jobs at the Mitre Corporation in Bedford, Lincoln Labs in Lexington, and Cambridge Research Laboratories at Hanscom Field. He also worked against attempts to close Fort Devens, and to remove funding for ballistic missile defense program research from the defense appropriations package...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Fighting to Make a Name for Himself | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

...mongolism), the congenital malformation called spina bifida or any number of other genetic defects. Had the doctors detected any serious problems, Lesley Brown could have quickly received an abortion. Observed Dr. Stuart J. Steele of London's Middlesex Hospital Medical School: "Mrs. Brown would have had all the very close medical supervision that one would expect in a particularly precious pregnancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...many scientists, there were even more sweeping ramifications. They noted that in-vitro fertilization techniques may give researchers an important new laboratory tool for devising ways of coping with genetic diseases, testing new methods of contraception and, perhaps most important of all, studying close up one of nature's most awesome and still baffling processes: the first stirrings of life. Said one leading specialist on reproductive physiology, Dr. Carl Pauerstein of the University of Texas, of the British work: "It has the potential for adding greatly to the knowledge of the reproductive biology of our species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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