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What he does is so simple, and how he does it so complicated, that Carl Lewis is a basic mystery. How fast he runs, how far he jumps, may serve to establish the precise lengths to which men can go. Gentler than a superman, more delicate than the common perception of a strong man, Lewis is physically the most advanced human being in the world, and about to become the most famous global sports figure since Muhammad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: No Limit to What He Can Do | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...that we never knew where we were going, except in the most general way, and no one back at the office knew how to find me." In those days, he found many of his stories by looking out the window, responding not to deadlines but to the gentler rhythms of the terrain outside Wall Street and Foggy Bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Kuralt: On the Road Again | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...complain that The New Yorker has become gentler and gentler, more nebulous, less real, it is the Whites doing: Andy's gossamer writing, in his increasingly important "Notes and Comment," and in his flavoring of the whole magazine with captions and fillers. Katharine's ... civilizing influence on Ross...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: Talk of the Town | 3/20/1984 | See Source »

...adopts a gentler tone, but will the Kremlin respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Bury a Hatchet | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...parts on violins and cellos better suited to powerful Strauss tone poems. The wind instruments are louder and more penetrating than classical flutes, oboes and clarinets and more complex in their mechanisms. The piano, a huge concert grand with a booming bass, is worlds removed from its gentler 18th century forerunner. In this welter of sound, inner voices are lost, delicate balances are destroyed. Exciting as the performance might be, the result is as distorted a reproduction of an art work as the Mona Lisa on a Trinitron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Letting Mozart Be Mozart | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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