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Berger raises some interesting questions but he provides few satisfactory answers. At first, he examines the problem of sustaining a relationship hindered by a lack of either physical or emotional commitment. Although they erect different defenses, Leo and Todd both fear involvement. After Leo and Celeste consummate their affair, they still maintain their distance from each other. And though Todd and Lynnette say "I love you," they refuse "to be in love." They pass like shadows through each other's lives, melding together but emerging with no signs of having touched...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: Passable Strangers | 3/18/1977 | See Source »

...month (average price: $6,500). The company expects to gross between $3 million and $5 million this year and is planning to expand overseas. Like other dome makers, the company sells mostly to people who intend to use them as primary, year-round homes. Since a competent handyman can erect a house himself, with muscle power from family and friends, a spacious, three-bedroom dome built from a kit can cost as little as $25,000 (not including land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: HOME SWEET DOME | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...Even introductory definitions flutter toward mystification ("Fountain. A roundel barry wavy argent and azure"). Fortunately, the book's 1,700 illustrations fill this simple information gap with a tournament of griffins rampant and bends sinister. They may be best perused couchant (lying down but with head erect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: GIFT BOOKS | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...ecology groups for its projects. Next, three miles of choice coastline will be developed along the southern edge of the ranch. If California's coastal commission approves, 80% of the property, including hilltops overlooking the ocean, will be left untouched. On the remaining 2,000 acres, Irvine will erect a resort, three mini shopping centers and 14,000 homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: War for 80,000 Acres | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...that jarred. He did not give a fig for the lines of high seriousness imposed by the hardcore New York art world. His reputation would look after itself; he would not tend it. Besides, Rauschenberg was a natural dissipater. The sight of him in his porcupine-quill leather jacket, erect but slightly, marinated with Jack Daniel's, cackling like a Texan loon and trying to get his arm around everyone at once, was too familiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Living Artist | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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