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...view of the Thames from Richmond House, for instance, or a more precocious early Rubens than his enormous, little- known portrait of the Marchesa Caterina Grimaldi from Kingston Lacy, or such a drop-dead showpiece of neoclassical metalwork as John Flaxman's silver- gilt Shield of Achilles, based on Homer's description of the "wonderful shield" wrought by Hephaestus in the Iliad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brideshead Redecorated | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...homer came on an 0-1 pitch from Tom Niedenfuer and was the first that the switch-hitting Smith has hit batting left-handed in 2968 career at-bats. He had only six homers this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/15/1985 | See Source »

Patterson (2-0) scattered eight hits, allowed two runs, walked three batters and struck out two in 6 2-3 innings. Jay Baller surrendered Mike Brown's leadoff homer in the eighth, then Lee Smith took over and earned his 33rd save. Rick Reuschel, who had won four in a row, gave up three hits, walked one and strick out six in seven innings and fell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Wrap | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...senior quarterback from Edison, N.J., struck Homer Hill all alone in the middle of the end zone at 11:58 for the second Lion score to top the hosts' impressive eight-play, 76-yard drive...

Author: By Bob Cunha and Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Gridders Earn Come-From-Behind Victory | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

...Civil War was fought to expunge the American original sin (slavery) and to save the dream and the power. It was all of Homer and Shakespeare come to the New World. It was the American discovery of tragedy, and of modern death, proceeding from the jaunty, clumsy toy soldiering of First Bull Run to Sherman's scorched earth and Grant's trench slaughter, which were a moral preview of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Who Is Buried in Grant's Tomb? | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

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