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...essentially nothing. Moreover, he will do it for 28 days, as he rides Jeep and horse about his 688 craggy acres in the Santa Ynez Mountains, his Rancho del Cielo, 2,200 ft. into the cielo, splitting firewood, clearing brush, ogling stars. A pleasant image for the public to dwell on, but it also raises some questions and a bit of a stir: Is so long a holiday fitting and proper for a President, the leader of the free world? Can Washington survive without being the center of Government for so long a stretch? Is there life without news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahhhhhh Wilderness! | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...shouting, waving flags and banners, the princely bridegroom might still take a fast two-step forward in time, thinking about another occasion on which he will be in such a procession, hearing such cheering. But he will be carrying more years then, and a much graver weight. Better to dwell in the present, when the shadows have been beaten back for a few festive days, and a watching world wants to crown him and his bride with only one wish: Godspeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...They call her "fast-ass": she calls them all Mary because "all the baptized black women on the island had Mary among their names." Jadine is young, beautiful, talented but orphaned; she has lost her sense of past. Her traditions died with her mother, and those Black people who dwell comfortably in legend do not trust her with her light skin. They see the traces, the Africa in her face, but they don't believe that she does since "Yallas don't come to being black natural-like. They have to choose it and most don't choose...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Ghosts in Black | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...performance of a new work is harder to get than the first; pieces are often commissioned, played once and then forgotten. Although Speculum presents many premieres, it has also tried to give good music a chance to catch on. Certain pieces -Carter's A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Wuorinen's Speculum Speculi and Martino's Pulitzer-prizewinning Notturno-are played fairly frequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Giving New Composers a Hearing | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

Marie Osmond, 21, pop singer, on her own virginity: "People dwell so much on why Marie won't go to bed with somebody, and they think I'm a little weird because I haven't yet. Like I'm missing a big thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Feb. 16, 1981 | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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