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The Soviet scientists constructed "a massive six-story press that just staggers the mind," Silvera says, "it ended up being a white elephant."

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Researchers Race to Form New Metal | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

More recently, the work has become, if not exactly more amiable, less wrenched by signs of aggression. It preserves its haunting collisions of imagery; who knows what the elephant is doing beside the field-hospital tent in M.A.S.H., 1978, or why the white figure is on its head-an effigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Haunting Collisions of Imagery | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

The hottest ticket in Manhattan last week was printed on a white glove, but for most of the 1,500 guests who showed up for Michael Jackson's Thriller party at the American Museum of Natural History, it was strictly a hands-off evening. Almost no one got within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 20, 1984 | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

As Hamlet says in his last words, "the rest is silence." Great terminal summations are a form of theater, really. They demand an audience - someone has to hear them, after all. More than that, they have been traditionally uttered with a high solemnity. Some last words have the irony of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Dying Art: The Classy Exit Line | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

Four centuries are represented in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack Prelutsky ($13.95). William Blake is here; so are Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, alongside such modern versifiers as Spike Milligan, Eve Merriam and Karla Kuskin. A zoo of creatures passes in review, from pachyderms ("I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mixture of Humor and Wonder | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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