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...Mercedes, a flustered maid served coffee while the shy, stout author made plans to accept his award in Stockholm. He intends to wear the traditional Mexican guayabera, a lightweight shirt worn outside the trousers. Said he: "To avoid putting on a tuxedo, I'll stand the cold." The creator of fictional ice, amnesia and ascending bedsheets could hardly do otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Magic, Matter and Money | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...labor leaders argue that the agency exports American jobs overseas, even though OPIC contends that it is a creator of employment by encouraging U.S. exports. null biggest problem, though, might be confusion with that other organization. Said one Haitian businessman: "OPIC? OPEC? I thought it was the oil cartel, but we soon learned they weren't throwing money around like the Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPIC, Not OPEC | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...overhead fan, dapples windows with rain stains, all to re-create the visual style in which Veronika could feel at home and alive. As she sings in a final drugged reverie that reunites the featured players of her life, "Memories are made of this." She dies, as her creator would, in an overdose of glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Master Without Masterpieces Andres Segovia: 1893-1987 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...valuable. They too derived from a distinguished intellectual tradition. Its founding father was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who argued in his novel Emile that children are not miniature adults and should not be drilled into becoming full-grown robots. "Everything is good as it comes from the hand of the Creator," said Rousseau; "everything degenerates in the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five Ways to Wisdom | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...efforts of this pair are not slipping by unnoticed, either, for they are unquestionably the two most successful directors in Hollywood: George Lucas, the creator of "Star Wars," and Steven Spielberg, whose most recent offering is "E. T." Consider the way these two have filled their last few movies with elements of religious mysticism...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: J.C., Phone Home | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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