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But none of that, pro or con, has a thing to do with theories of creation, or the origin of life on earth. In a sense, we are all creationists. We differ ! only on the specifics. The idea of linear time is so embedded in our consciousness that we instinctively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Dissent, Dogma and Darwin's Dog | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

Cubism has never gone soft; it remains, after 80 years, mysterious, challenging and resistant. Neither Picasso nor Braque said much to explain what they believed they were doing. Their Cubist work contains no ideological positions, dramatic subject matter or easy anecdotes. It disdains narrative and sentiment -- a severe test for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Adam and Eve of Modernism | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

First championed by women's groups in the early 1970s, when abortion was $ illegal in most states, menstrual extraction is a variation of the vacuum aspirations used in medical clinics. A thin plastic tube is first inserted through the cervix into the uterus. Then the uterine lining, along with an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Abortions Without Doctors | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

At first it was an optical shimmer, a weaving of color energy on the surface, in deference to the prevalent American art theory of the day and, to some degree, in homage to Riley. The work of Mark Rothko, which Scully had seen as a student, was a presiding influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Earning His Stripes | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

In fact, the majority of gay men and women still do not openly disclose their sexual orientation because prejudice remains so deeply embedded in the U.S. About 25 million Americans are gay, but society's institutions, from government to the church and the press to advertising, virtually ignore their existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Is The Gay Revolution a Flop? | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

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