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...With great compression the book also tells the story of Mill's life from the time he emigrated from Rumania and went to M.I.T. as a skinny teenager, to the journey back to Bucharest 48 years later to visit his mother's grave. Free of the technical gush that sometimes afflicts photographers exposed to print, Mili offers brief notes on the art of portraiture, illustrating them with dramatically juxtaposed pictures of famous people, among them Pablo Casals, Adolf Eichmann, Jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Hitchcock and Henri Matisse. Perhaps the best is Sean O'Casey, a perfect proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Princely Prints | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...candidates had to display their skill at writing mail-order copy-filling in blanks opposite catalogue pictures of rich chocolate cakes, golden Oregon peaches and those dwarf Christmas pines. The blend of gush and gusto that makes Bear Creek so successful is hard to match. Of the dwarf pine, one applicant writes, "A tree-mendous way to remember Christmas." Holmes and Stump groan. And groan again when confronted by "It's love at first bite"-about the nine-layer chocolate cake ($18.95 delivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oregon: An Adman's Call of the Wild | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...questions of the experts and then waited out the full answers. When questions were directed at him, even on sensitive subjects like mistreatment of the hostages, he responded politely but with only a short generalized observation that revealed almost nothing. There was no compulsion to let his innermost views gush forth. A wise Washington hand, Speaker Sam Rayburn, used to say that you don't have to explain what you don't say. Maybe Reagan heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Sense of Privacy | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

According to Consumer Reports, the 1.4 billion gal. a day of H2O that gush through the city's faucets are fresher, clearer and "more stimulating" than all 37 varieties of commercial bottled water tested. For those who insist on decanting their liquids, Macy's is even selling the stuff with a spritz of carbonation under the gold label: CELEBRATED NEW YORK WATER -THE DRINK OF MILLIONS. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Odds & Trends: Jan. 19, 1981 | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...within days of the car bombings that critically injured Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka'a and Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf (a third mayor, El-Bireh's Ibrahim Tawil, escaped unscathed), Shin Bet, as the security service is known, turned up evidence that linked six members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim settler movement to the attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Shin Bet Affair | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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