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...only hints at the size of the field it covers. Its broad subject is the classical revival that spread through South European art -- mainly French, Italian and Spanish -- in the wake of World War I and formed a kind of counterweight to the fragmentation of cubism and feverish alienation of dada, expressionism and surrealism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modernism's Neglected Side | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...world's oldest festival of new art was a long-overdue gesture. But alas, the best thing to be said about it is that Holzer is a woman. Considered as art, the installation by this 39-year-old conceptual artist seems lavish but mediocre, especially when divorced from the feverish context of the Biennale's opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Sampler of Witless Truisms | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...bowel obstruction, after five days of illness. The parents, who had summoned a "spiritual healing" practitioner, maintained that their son had shown only intermittent flulike symptoms and seemed to be recovering just before taking a fatal turn. But medical experts testified that the child would probably have been feverish, vomiting and in obvious pain before his death. Had he been taken to a doctor, they asserted, the boy would still be alive. In one poignant moment at the trial, David Twitchell sadly voiced his misgivings: "If medicine could have saved him, I wish I had turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Convicted Of Relying on Prayer | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...sawed in half so he can carry it. It is still almost as long as he is. He has a florid tattoo on his right arm -- a premature badge of manhood that also serves as an animist charm to ward off evil. Sometimes Kyaw Lin is shaky and feverish because, like most of his comrades, he suffers from bouts of malaria. Nobody is there to wipe his brow or take his temperature; he just lies in his bunker until the fever subsides and he can return to fighting the Burmese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Junior Rambos | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...aims to dominate the Arab world, the Iraqi leader is reclusive and aloof. He has not traveled outside the Arab world since 1985, and rarely grants interviews. Despite a feverish cult of personality, little is known about his habits or tastes beyond the image he cultivates as a patron of music and poetry. Those outside his tightly controlled inner circle have little sense of the humorless man who hides behind bombastic statements and paternalistic visits to the countryside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Sword of the Arabs | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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