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...very forthright and apparently realistic transcription of raw nature. Typically, his spaces are shallow and entangled. You are on the forest floor, in a cavern of green and gray, gazing at an almost impenetrable screen of slender tree-trunks, fallen branches, brush, lichens and rocks. There is no horizon line to offer visual release: just more forest, dappled and blotched with light. The surface is not oppressively congested-for at his best, in paintings like Late Light, 1978, or Shadow, 1977, Welliver has a gift for surrounding every shape with air, drenching it in transparency-but it puzzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Neil Welliver's Cold Light | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

This problem will not go away and, in fact, will only get worse as polling becomes more accurate and quicker projections can be made. On the horizon is the instant-response Qube cable system which would allow immediate living room surveys of constituents via their TV sets...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Elections and the Media | 10/7/1982 | See Source »

...total team effort could prove important for the booters with big games against Boston College and UConn on the horizon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Dominate Smith, 4-1 | 10/6/1982 | See Source »

Seen from an airplane, it looks like a giant scar stretching across the Great Plains and over the horizon. For much of last summer, however, the scene featured countless lengths of steel pipe lying like uncooked spaghetti beside deep ditches. Here and there clusters of yellow machines and men in hard hats or baseball caps could be seen, many of them bare-chested under the hot sun, some working under the shade of umbrellas attached to the pipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Times for Pipeline Builders | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...journalist, writes sensitively of Harvard's insularity from the rest of Cambridge and Boston, which he strives to overcome by reading and writing about tension between working-class Catholics and Yankee intellectuals. Robert Coles '50, professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, discusses the same insularity, but his efforts at horizon-expansion culminate in a mealy-mouthed dpiphany in a drugstore, where a kind counter woman revives him after he faints, moving him to conclude, "There are some people in this world who don't need courses in Social Relations to enable a firm, shrewd grasp of various social and psychological...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Living in the Past | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

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