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...women cagers entering the final games of the season 10-13 overall and mired smack-dab in the middle of the Ivy pack...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Women Cagers to Welcome New Yorkers | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

...probably the world's most famous graffitist, so there is poetic -- and possibly political -- justice in the fact that Keith Haring would turn up writing on the world's most infamous wall. He was in West Berlin last week to dab a chain of his cartoon-like figures on a 100-yd. stretch of the Berlin Wall next to Checkpoint Charlie. Invited by the 13th of August Working Group, which operates the West German Wall Museum, Haring chose red, yellow and black tones because the colors are found in both countries' flags and symbolize the "coming together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 3, 1986 | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...carried out by its English curator, Gervase Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser to the National Trust in London. He did the job with wide knowledge and, in the matings of some objects, a dry wit. One could be fatigued by the result but never bored, for Jackson-Stops is a dab-hand at fitting potted histories around incompressible works of art. One is firmly led through the mutations of English taste, as early Elizabethan patronage becomes the acquisitive connoisseurship of the late 18th century, and the tiny enameled world of Nicholas Hilliard opens to the spacious marmoreal one of the Grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brideshead Redecorated | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...important echo that was probably associated with the Titanic. Armed with that information, Knorr scientists decided to deploy Argo at that spot. In less than a week, the researchers received the first dim video images of the Titanic that they had been praying for. "We went smack-dab over a gorgeous boiler," crowed Ballard to the Canadian television network CTV. "It was just bang, there we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: After 73 Years, A Titanic FIND | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...Your Ordinary Shave," reads the legend on the bottom of the page. No, not at all. This is not a man who will slice his chin in a hurry to make the shuttle bus, and run around his suite with a dab of toilet paper stuck on his still-damp face, praying that it will stop bleeding before he goes and he won't have to look stupid. This is not a man who will need industrial-strength Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion to heal his face after the razor has left it as dry as Utah. This...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Change Your Existence | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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