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...market, million-dollar prices are as common as bugs on a bayou pickup's windshield. You need eight figures to make news, and even then it may not work. The early results of the fall auction season--which began last week and will continue through this week--confirm this: one big bang, and not much else. The bang was afforded by the collection of works by Picasso (plus some by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and other American artists) put together over 50 years, on a fairly modest budget, by Victor and Sally Ganz. It was one of the more famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUCTIONEERS' SLUGFEST | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...film ultimately belongs to Debbi Morgan's clairvoyant Mozelle. Her struggles against her mystic powers and those of her rival Elzora (Diahann Carroll) confirm her worst fear, that her past memories confirm her destiny. She is the film's tragic heroine, convinced after the death of her three husbands that she is cursed...

Author: By Jeremy J. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eve's Bayou' Blends Mystery, Voodoo, Sex | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

ATMOSPHERICS. Far more than those old get-togethers with the Soviets, this is a summit about perceptions, where the meeting itself is the message. The Chinese are already packaging it as the second normalization of Sino-American relations. To confirm that, Jiang wants to be accorded status and respect, the treatment due the leader of a great nation, signifying not only the end of the opprobrium China has endured since Tiananmen Square but also its emergence as the 21st century's other great power. So Jiang's handlers have been acutely concerned to ensure that his trip conforms exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW YOU CAN JUDGE JIANG'S VISIT | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...things I was worried about was whether it was possible for me to consider the pros at a place like Harvard," James adds. "My brother was able to confirm that studying would not be an [obstacle...

Author: By Kelly M. Gushue, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blake Brothers Form Formidable Tennis Tandem | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...phonics legislation passed unanimously. Asked what the best response to pro-phonics research is, Goodman refers to his book Phonics Phacts, a folksy 100-page paperback. Preferring the "ethnographic" data he collects, Goodman dismisses the research conducted by his opponents. Asked if there is research from other fields that confirms his findings, he cannot think of any. His final defense is that phonics teaches the ability to recognize individual words, not to understand text, but studies confirm what common sense tells us: comprehension depends on word recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW JOHNNY SHOULD READ | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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