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...large works depict scenes from the life of his grandfather, an immigrant from Mexico at the turn of the century. "I tried to pick themes that were common to the experience an immigrant would have in the U.S. and the reasons they would come here...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Exploring Peru, Bluegrass and Vogue | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...somewhat contrived view of a small town Montana family struck by tragedy--is unmistakably an ideological throwback to Ordinary People. Both films present pictures of ostensibly cohesive, happy families; both revolve around the same tragic insident--the accidental death of an older son--and in the process both depict fairly typical people in the throes of crisis...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Sticks and Stones | 5/18/1984 | See Source »

...times change, and so has TIME. Up-to-the-minute, tonally accurate, four-color* news photos depict remote jungle battlefields and earthquake epicenters, political campaigns in city streets and satellite repairs in outer space. Until now, however, no newsmagazine has been able to employ four-color illustration throughout its news pages. It was often necessary to give up color photography in one section in order to gain it in another, or to confine articles that needed color to limited sections of the magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 30, 1984 | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...know how I must seem to you, sir Just another sincere but limited academic." Then, as relations between the two men deteriorate further, Tucker is reduced to a caricature again. Golding's spiritual concern over Tucker as a human being wars with the literary problem of how to depict him. This tension, superadded to Golding's evident wish for "originality," makes for an interesting, distinctive, often funny and vet not commanding novel...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: Journey of the Damned | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...three weeks before last October's bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, when Hart claims he was calling for an American withdrawal from Lebanon, he actually voted to extend their mission for another six months. By feeding these examples to the press, Mondale aides hope to depict Hart as a feckless McGovernite who has learned the "wrong lesson" from Viet Nam. Aides portray Mondale, by contrast, as a steady hand who knows what it is like to have the nuclear-weapons-code briefcase at the ready. A Mondale ad shows a red phone ringing in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Local Politics, Global Power | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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