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Free beer for many voters smoothed the way last week as the southern regions of the Sudan went to the polls. Arbitrarily assigned symbols to represent their candidacies because of the south's almost universal illiteracy, candidates beamed if they had drawn such favorable ones as an elephant or...
The lectures are models of diffusion and infusion, delivered in a free-wheeling metaphoric style. Literature and life dissolve in a curious amalgam. At one time or another this fall, the peripatetic Finley was inspired to comment on pre-med students, suburbs, roller skates, Barbar the Elephant, and Vietnam. He...
Caine wears those early years like tattoos. He grew up in Southwark, in the part of London called Elephant and Castle, after a pub that was there long ago. From childhood he wanted out. "To be a Cockney is, well, like what the Negroes complain about in America," he says...
Perhaps the best thing about all the decorations and anecdotes that clutter the scene is a sense of humor, a sense of freedom, a suspicion that anything can happen-perhaps even passion. In this welter of the current art world, it is still possible to say, or sense, that some...
On this 25th anniversary, there are still a few staffers here who can recall that frantic Sunday. The first inkling at TIME was a roar from a senior editor as he read the first A.P. wire dispatch. After the initial shock, everything went in orderly progression. Staffers who were on...