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Lesson two: Look outward. You have been rightly taught Socrates' dictum that the unexamined life is not worth living. I would add: The too examined life is not worth living either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware The Study Of Turtles | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

...puppeteers, modelmakers and computer mavens -- working closely with enthusiastic experts. Phil Tippett, an animator and longtime dinosaur buff, would whisper admonitions after nearly every take: "The head would never move like that," or "The claw wouldn't extend that far." He was the chief enforcer of Spielberg's dictum: that the dinosaurs be animals, not monsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Magic of Jurassic Park | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Giorgione appeals more to modern taste because his imagery was more mysterious and poetic, and the idea that painting should mimic the effects of lyric or pastoral poetry, ut pictura poesis, was a favorite 16th century dictum. There is a word for it, Giorgionesque, an allusive quality that comes through even in conventional subjects, such as the exquisite portrait of a young knight surrounded by the gleaming black weapons of his vocation, a dense still life with religious overtones (the handle and pommel of the sword are also a cross), the bony silence of the knight's face contrasting with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brush With Genius | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

Most fans believe the threat to the game is purely economic: in no other corner of America is the dictum so widely held that money is the root of all evil. Richard Ravitch, the labor negotiator for the owners, loudly claims that 18 teams lost money last year. What is certain is that 300 of the 700 players on big-league rosters this season will earn more than $1 million each. Barry Bonds, the National League's Most Valuable Player, deserted the Pittsburgh Pirates in the off-season for greener pastures -- a record $43.75 million, six-year contract with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Great Season | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...bleeds, it leads" is the dictum of local television news. By now the public has grown numb to acts of savagery, and only a handful of journalists can still arouse feelings of shock or pity. New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson is one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Close Range | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

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