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One room in Icahn's midtown Manhattan offices, decorated with framed stock certificates of the companies he has profitably raided, testifies to his conquests. Among the hunter's trophies: American Can, Simplicity Pattern, Hammermill Paper and Marshall Field. It is a display that would make many of his corporate victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tougher Than the Rest | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

In general the Japanese in Paris were conservative in their taste, preferring as models Renoir and Monet to Picasso. Some of the high points of this show are conservative in the best sense, such as Kishida Ryusei's superrefined Still Life (Three Red Apples, Cup, Can, Spoon), 1920, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Japanese with A French Accent | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

What prompts all this frenetic activity? With a secure place in the annals of musical theater, a personal net worth of more than $200 million and all the creature comforts that attend such a favorable balance sheet, Lloyd Webber would seem to have everything. It may sound like an old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magician of The Musical | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

As Jesus, Jon Blackstone is one of the few actors who escapes the trap of hyperactivity. His gentle portrayal of Jesus as an unassuming teacher is particularly welcome in this frenetic production. Blackstone is truly moving when he acts out Jesus's betrayal and crucifixion in the show's final...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Making a Joyful Noise | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

Up to the late '70s his reliefs had stretched the conventions of relief without really departing from them: they had a flat solid background plane from which the bright templates sprouted as figures on a ground, and however "wild" the color seemed, it was always anchored within the coordinates of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Grand Maximalist | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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