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Although light reaching the planet from the sun is only a quarter as bright as it was near Saturn, scientists expect Voyager's cameras (as well as its other instruments) to reveal considerably more detail as the spacecraft draws closer to Uranus and finally swoops to within 66,000 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Far Encounter: Voyager closes in on Uranus | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

As a poet, he is best remembered for his lyricism. He was a young man of the ideological '30s, though politically he appears to have been in the thin of it: a Communist briefly in his youth and a liberal during the years before and after World War II. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confessions of a Public Son, JOURNALS: 1939-1983 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Yet as the pictures testify, this apparently prosaic man harbored a true poetic vision. A passionate student of the piano, Adams reluctantly concluded in his late 20s that his hands were too small for a concert career. After an encounter with the photographer Paul Strand, he decided to devote himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Closing Accounts: ANSEL ADAMS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Mazursky varies Renoir's ending, refusing to permit his tramp to rediscover the freedom of the open road; the director seems uncertain about who finally benefits most from this strange encounter. Indeed, the old film that Down and Out most consistently evokes is Mazursky's own Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sugary Satire: DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

A European spacecraft makes some surprising discoveries about the frozen core of Halley's comet, and survives a dusty encounter.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: March 24, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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