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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oracles--to compose some of his music. "Most people who believe that I'm interested in chance don't realize that I use chance as a discipline," he says. "They think I use it--I don't know--as a way of giving up making choices. But my choices consist in choosing what questions...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Creativity: Exploring the Unexplainable | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

Each of these small samples is radioactive to the degree of about a tenth of a curie," Milne said, adding that shipments would consist of about 120 of the samples at a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Downplays Radioactivity Threat | 1/13/1981 | See Source »

...sculpture were melded on an architectural scale. But nobody had given this juncture between the categories of art the intense poetic charge that Nevelson brought to it. This became triumphantly clear in the large sculptures she started producing in the late '50s, the environmental walls. Essentially they consist of irregular stacks of shallow boxes, filled with forms in relief and painted black. They have an extraordinarily dignified, almost hieratic sense of presence. Under the unifying skin of black paint (ordinary house paint sprayed on the raw wood), the rich accumulations of shape, the curious offcuts and repeated units...

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

...understanding things is personal, he puts it thus: He dug a pond on his own property, and now if he wants to stock that pond with fish, he has to get a fishing license to catch his own fish. Bingo. If the vision of boundless freedom were to consist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...still the land of perpetual opportunity, and every man gloriously for himself. Economics fits into this vision neatly, since California happened to provide a fine justification for capitalism by producing gold from the earth like a health food. If there were a California Ocean school of painting, it would consist of avocados in the foreground and a range of office buildings behind. Perhaps that is Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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