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Chagall's was a textbook case of the way some artists receive their subject matter, their grammar of signs, in childhood. He was a child of the Russian ghetto, born in the town of Vitebsk in 1887; his father was a herring packer, his grandfather a cantor and kosher butcher, his uncle an amateur violinist. The imagery of music and shtetl folklore, mingled with the face of his childhood sweetheart (and future wife), Bella Ro- senfeld, furnished the unaltering ground of his work for 80 years, long after the close-knit and weak little societies it represented had been incinerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fiddler on the Roof of Modernism: Marc Chagall: 1887-1985 | 4/8/1988 | See Source »

...remember collecting baseball cards in grammar school? If you're a big baseball fan, like me, it's probably one of your fondest memories...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Winter Trade Winds | 12/8/1987 | See Source »

Giuliani said that more ethics education for students in grammar school would prevent future crime, and that the government could reduce its deficits by prosecuting more tax evaders...

Author: By Michael A. Levitt, | Title: Giuliani Says Mafia Weaker; Urges More Ethics Education | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...Sichuan now offer readers the autobiography of Archcapitalist Lee Iacocca, selected writings of Sigmund Freud, Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue and lavishly illustrated handbooks on how to apply eye makeup. Former students of English gather at twilight by the banks of Chengdu's Jinjiang river to practice their fractured grammar. The flashing sign above the dance floor at Guangzhou's luxury Baiyun Hotel actually reads WELCOME TO JOIN THE PARTY. No one interprets "party" as meaning the Communist variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism Two Crossroads of Reform | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...East Cambridge Savings Bank sponsored a "Name The Robot" contest among Cambridge grammar school students. "Officer Caring" was selected from more than 600 entries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robot Joins Cambridge Police Force | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

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