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Willis Smith of Ottawa Lake, Mich., is selling photographs of the image, a set of four for $2. He has sold 700 sets. Since the image photos are so popular, he thought he would show people his other pictures, so he keeps his family album in his car. People are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: a Vision West of Town | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

Looked at analytically, Me and My Girl should not be so infectiously exhilarating. The lyrics are banal and devoid of wit; the songs, though hummable and winsome, tend to have the same simple beat; and the narrative -- a reworking of Pygmalion in which a cheerily crooked Cockney finds himself heir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Sweet and Sentimental Smash | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

One cool artsy line-and-shadow shot after another flashes on the screen. Wheatfields stretch into the distance, crooked fences reflect sunlit weeds, the world becomes one large poetic image as French director Agnes Varda transforms one girl's story into a supposedly universal metaphor; life is an aimless wander...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: I'm a Wanderer | 8/1/1986 | See Source »

As Brotherhood closes in, Magnus sets the crooked record straight, or as straight as possible under the circumstances. There is much here about the routines of spying: keeping in touch with your "Joes," the odd assortment of informants who provide trade figures, truck movements and the seemingly meaningless details that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of the Acorn and the Tree a Perfect Spy | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Suddenly the dragster sags, except for the propped-up side of the wing; the wrinkled strut has heated up and stretched out. Kalitta jams another two- by-eight between the struts and throws his weight against this lever to fine tune the straightening. After considerable additional work, he steps back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Old-Fashioned Ingenuity on Wheels | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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