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...time Melvin receives the inheritance, he owns the audience's heart and absolutely no one suspects (as so many did at the time) that Melvin drew up the will himself. When the inevitable horde of lawyers, agents and other thieves descend to help themselves to Melvin's windfall, this ravioli of a man begins to seem like an embattled hero, staving off a greedy throng...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Riches and Squalor | 11/14/1980 | See Source »

...time for the cloudy redemptive ecstasies of German expressionism: its inwardness was, so to speak, an insult to the collective. "My aim is to be understood by everyone," Grosz wrote in 1925. "I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a veritable diving bell crammed with cabalistic crap and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionist anarchy has got to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Twenties' Bleak New World | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...talent from which he would draw the people for his Administration. It has not really worked out that way. Task forces are quietly shaping ideas for the transition and the programs that will follow should Reagan win. But the assault force that, in a change in Government, would descend on Washington and take command remains largely unknown. The Reagan people have nearly 250 persons on their key advisory committees, the nucleus of a talent bank that the Governor has promised will be in place and running a few days of his Jan. 20 Inauguration if he wins the election. Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Consoling Promise of Change | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...least eight new co-ops or condominiums are currently in some stage of completion, all high-rising and luxurious, of course, and all smack in the center of things, which accounts for their appeal. At the proposed 44-story Museum Tower, for example, condominium owners will be able to descend from a $250,000 one-bedroom home to an extension of the Museum of Modern Art within the same building. In the 62-story Trump Tower (named for Builder Donald, not the bridge maneuver) one apartment is planned that will cost $11 million. The applicants so far do not include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York, New York, It's a ... | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...Then, descend on Harvard Square to open a checking account. Try the NOW account option. Find out what NOW stands for, in the never ending pursuit of useless knowledge. Buy a frisbee and four Harvard t-shirts at the Coop. Purchase lunch at Elsies, (where John F. Kennedy '40 used to eat--you have a heritage to live up to now) and take it back to the steps of Widener, where you can eat your first meal at Harvard by flouting the rule that it's gauche to be reverent...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Week Gets Weaker | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

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