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You get better and you get worse, but you can never know if it matters. O Crimson, you are future and you are past, and your present is a fleeting spark for us; you are a great friendly whore who takes us for our one-night four-year stand and...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: 14 Plympton St. | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

Earthworks and land art are notoriously difficult to get into a museum -in fact part of their aim was to escape its confines-and at the Whitney they are present, in a ghostly way, through slide projection. But there is one unusually gifted land artist at the Hirshhorn, Lita Albuquerque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quirks, Clamors and Variety | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

William Trevor is an Irish-born novelist and short-story writer highly regarded for the had understated manner in which he suggests that quot;real life" and other a illusions may be dangerous to one's health. His deadpan style disguises a compassion for the peevish, the confused and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Banality of Deceit OTHER PEOPLE'S WORLDS | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Darkness fell as the heavies cruised across the finish line, in first place of course (death, taxes, and the good Harvard crew teams are the only certain things), and in a sudden epiphany, the ostensible absurdity of working so long and so hard for a fleeting instant of victory made...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Moments to Remember for a Crimson Devotee | 1/28/1981 | See Source »

Nothing seemed to kindle Kennedy's enthusiasm like another journey into space. He was jubilant when the U.S. finally got Alan Shepard into the stratosphere and down again. Kennedy flew to Cape Canaveral, Fla., to greet John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. The week he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Haunting Music of the Spheres | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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