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Rosa can also "feel"' colors. White, she says, is smooth; red is coarse-grained; and blue is wavy. Again determined to rule out a reaction to textures, the neurologists tested her with colored light. They shone a red light on a light green book, making it look blue. Rosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurology: Seeing Fingertips | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast, and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aug. 17, 1962 | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast, and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive film that takes moviegoers where many Manhattanites themselves fear to go, into the rat-infested tenement hovels of the bruisingly poor, the lower depths of the richest city on earth. The film piles melodrama too heavily on its plot, but the harsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Manhattan's Lower Depths | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

New Deal. Alfred's fossil hunting began when he was only 13, when he hiked to the abandoned Granton quarry in North Bergen, a mile from his home. Friends showed him the remains of ancient fish in a layer of fine-grained black shale and Alfred became a paleontologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: First Flight | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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