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Brisbon has 90 well-supervised minutes each day outside his small (7 ft. 7 in. by 5 ft. 10 in.) cell. He works out with weights, keeping his 155 lbs. (on a 5-ft 9-in. frame) in shape. He complains about his confinement: "Can't take two steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death Penalty: I Didn't Like Nobody, Henry Brisbon, Jr. | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

Certainly, Van Dyck knew how to make his sitters look handsomer than they were. Any cosmetician can do that; it is part of the ordinary transaction that painting and photography have with reality. Before photography, when one's idea of a strange face had to be set up by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dramas of Self-Presentation | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

It takes Newman longer-seven years, he figures-to know whether his movies are winners or not. His acting in The Verdict is brilliant and solid and, what is more, brilliant in the right direction. He plays a boozy Irish-Catholic lawyer, who is on-screen for nearly all of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Newman: Verdict on a Superstar | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

Fast Eddie, the pool shooter who told Jackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats, "I'm the best you've ever seen, Fats, I'm the best there is," is all speed and charm and thin-ice cockiness. Hud Bannon, the surly cowboy womanizer who is the turbulence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Newman: Verdict on a Superstar | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

Every time a new world leader rises from the smoke, the press and the public try to piece him together from known fragments, however tiny. This works the way police composite pictures are assembled: witnesses contribute nostrils, ear lobes, chins, until a fully shaded face emerges, looking more like a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Looking for Mr. Goodpov | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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