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Those Those who who like like artists artists with with dramatic dramatic lives (hot, heavy, conflict-ridden ear-cutters or their SoHo clones) will be dis appointed by Milton Avery's. No major American artist has a thinner dossier. A mild, unassuming man who disliked publicity and made at best a bare living from his work, he joined no groups, signed no manifestos, was linked to no political causes, clobbered no body in the Cedar Bar and said very little about himself; when asked for his theories about art, his usual reply was "Why talk when you can paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Milton Avery's Rich Fabric of Color | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...show would open with the dossier of this week's criminal. One Martin I King Jr. His official FBI classification through most of the sixties was Section A of the "reserve idea," a list of people "in a position to influence others against national interests or...likely to furnish financial or other material aid to subversive elements...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Prime Time FBI | 2/27/1982 | See Source »

...reputations are not made of one or two incidents. They are the accumulation of many acts, big and small. Reagan's expanding foreign policy dossier includes decisions on the neutron bomb, Japanese auto imports, the Soviet grain embargo, arms to China. The Administration's domestic actions have also etched the Reagan image deeper in a number of ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Chip on His Shoulder | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...does this same man (Rutger Hauer) single out of the huge team of police pursuing him the one man, a fellow called Deke, who poses a deadly threat to him and then acquire a detailed dossier on him? Granted, Deke is played by sullen Sylvester Stallone, who tends to stand out in a crowd. Still, Deke has a moody, unexplained thing about not wanting to shoot anyone, so it is strange that the terrorist decides to become obsessed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chicken Feed | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...advocate a policy of "international collaboration" concerning the use of atomic weapons. Oppenheimer felt an international community of nations should control the testing and development of the bomb. However, Oppenheimer's willingness to cooperate with other nations, coupled with his past political connections (the FBI had a comprehensive dossier describing all his affiliations with members of the Communist Party), led government hawks and Oppenheimer's former Los Alamos colleague. Edward Teller, to believe that the Father of the Atomic Bomb would be willing to put his idea up for adoption. In 1954, Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance...

Author: By Terrence P. Hanrahan, | Title: Oppenheimer at Ground Zero | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

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