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...light of the dousing Harvard's offense received against UConn, after outscoring their opponents 11-0 in the previous two games, it appears she forgot one more task--to pray for no rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather, UConn Douse Crimson Stickwomen, 1-0 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...hear myself maintaining. 'When you sit down to eat toast, life is toast. And when you take out the garbage, life is garbage! You can't leave the garbage halfway down the stairs, Helen. It belongs in the can in the yard. Covered.' 'I forgot it.' 'How can you forget it when it's already in your hand?' 'Perhaps, dear, because it's garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of a Jewish Centaur | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...natural paradise, exemplified since the 18th century by Tahiti. Matisse had gone to Tahiti in 1930, finding it "both superb and boring . . . There the weather is beautiful at sunrise and it does not change until night. Such immutable happiness is tiring." He dived off the reefs and never forgot the colors of the madrepores and the absinthe-green water; these appear in cut-outs like Polynesia, 1946, or The Bird and the Shark, 1947, as images of a spectacular and, on the whole, beneficent nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sultan and the Scissors | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Your writers forgot to rate the friendliness of the people who work at the airports in the guide [July 18]. Cheerful employees can always brighten a weary or troubled traveler. I've been in only six of the airports mentioned, but I would rate them as follows: Denver's Stapleton: very helpful and friendly. Kennedy and LaGuardia: surprisingly friendly and helpful. Charles de Gaulle and O'Hare: civil. National: grouchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1977 | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

Rubens never forgot the lesson of Venetian art: with every object, from a wineglass to a woman's belly, brought to its fullest luster as substance, "luxury" meant completeness of being. There is something quite transcendental about Rubens' incessant delight in the material world. Every dimple or blush on the skin of Helene Fourment, the child wife of his old age (she was 16, he 53, when they were married in 1630), is both the record of desire and a proclamation of God's generosity. Rubens' world was tumescent; even the eyes in his portraits, large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rubens: 'Fed upon Roses' | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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