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What follows is not mostly Mozart but mostly Hildesheimer. His book is an exercise in middlebrow beating that challenges the accepted premises of biography: a life is a story with a beginning, middle and end that exerts a satisfying dramatic unity and humanizes its subject. Such notions are wishful thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waiting for Amadeus | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

As an undergraduate, he says, he merely took courses that interested him--usually having something to do with Greece or Rome--and was not anxious to fulfill his general education requirements. One memorable course was titled, "The Greek Erotic Novel."

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: The Van Dyke of Classics | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Nudes are a continuing preoccupation of Soyer's. His studies have an erotic quality that is unexpected in so detached an artist. The bodies-always female-are not beautiful in the classic sense. Heavy-haunched and often pregnant, Soyer's models have inspired his freest, most impressionistic and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Raphael Soyer's Steadfast Gaze | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

A man awakens in a padded room. He cannot remember how he got there or much of anything else. Two women are watching him, and from them he learns his name: Miles Green. He begins to dislike the observer who calls herself his wife and feels relieved when she goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Prisoners of Gender | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

LITTLE Claudio Aballay's penis received a good deal of media attention earlier this month. The Globe and other newspapers carried detailed description of the 1981 freak motorbike accident which left the 11-year-old Virginia boy castrated. Rushing to a little league soccer match aboard the back of his...

Author: By --thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Lunacy and Sorrow | 7/23/1982 | See Source »

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