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Many of his best pictures were hung in England. Gainsborough copied his gnarled-oak thickets; Turner's early marine paintings were done under the partial spell of Ruisdael's sea pieces, his slim parallelograms of rusty sail leaning on the wind-chopped estuary. Most of all, John Constable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Opening a Path to Natural Vision | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

On Saturday, I arrived at the rink, and outside the main entrance, a girl in a blue coat (I still can't figure that out) was hawking her wares, which turned out to be information sheets on pre-arranged charter fights to Providence for the NCAA semi-finals and finals...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Tired of Seeing Red | 3/24/1982 | See Source »

Little could justify this final verdict delivered by a legal system characterized by inconsistencies and imperfections. Experience from other states shows that the death penalty is often levied unusually heavily on the disproportionate number of minorities filling the jails. There is no reason to believe that Massachusetts, a state not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Answer To Crime | 3/23/1982 | See Source »

So far, the rate cutting has almost totally failed in its principal objective: filling up the planes with enough bargain-hungry passengers to return the carriers to profitability. Industry "load-factors," or numbers of seats filled on scheduled flights, keep going down, from 59.1% in 1980 to 58.7% last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines in a Nose Dive | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

But other futurists think the soft-cover business, in fact, may pick up the risks of publishing first novels, new nonfiction and, perhaps, poetry from the ailing old houses. Says Richard Snyder, president of Simon & Schuster: "The fact is, the mass-market publishers are making things more accessible, not less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Times in Hard-Cover Country | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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