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...embedded in abstract expressionism. But she was able to find a way of rapid gestural drawing that did not depend on the skeining and overlay of thrown paint from edge to edge that Pollock had perfected. It was the brush that counted for her, and when she did fling or dribble liquid pigment on the surface, it only looked like a mannerism. But her sense of drawing was so ingrained that she could cover a huge surface with notations that never palled: shifting tempo, direction, fatness of marks; she could (literally) paint up a storm. Works like Cobalt Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bursting Out of the Shadows | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...socks away his money, partly in banks in the Cayman Islands, and lives quietly in the apartment in Mountain View, Calif. But in September 1981, he seeks out an American attorney and arranges to meet him in a piano bar called The Fling. Identifying himself only as "Jay," the engineer starts telling his story over Bloody Marys and proposes a deal: if the attorney, William Dougherty, can win a promise of immunity from the U.S. Government, the engineer will turn double agent and pass information on Polish-KGB espionage to the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Love of Money and Adventure | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...competition. Since SNC's debut, ABC, CBS and NBC have added a to tal of 33 hours a week of late-night and early-morning news shows. Thus, says Ritchie, "the availability of commercial time in broadcast news about doubled." His wry summation of SNC'S costly fling: "Our contribution has been to increase network news coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sole Survivor | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Sunset Boulevard (Paramount) is a story of Hollywood, mostly at its worst, brilliantly told by Hollywood at its best. A daring film by ordinary movie standards, it is the last collaborative fling by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder at a specialty they have made their own: playing hob with convention and getting away with it. It also brings Actress Gloria Swanson back to the screen, after a nine-year absence, in a performance that puts her right up in the running for the first Oscar of her 37-year career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1950: SUNSET BOULEVARD Stars Gloria Swanson | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...proverb," said Cervantes, "is a short sentence based on long experience," and to prove it he had Sancho and his paisanos fling those sentences around like pesetas: "There's no sauce in the world like hunger"; "Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last"; "Patience, and shuffle the cards." His English contemporary was of two minds about folklore, as he was about everything. Hamlet disdains it: "The proverb is something musty." Yet the plays overflow with musty somethings: "Men are April when they woo; December when they wed"; "A little pot and soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Proverbs or Aphorisms? | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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