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Strasser also has a redeeming weakness for illusion and the surreal. The back corridors at Computer Associates, with their white walls, black floors and deep side niches, are moody and de Chiricoesque. Both there and in his offices, conventional ceilings in the reception areas simply end at the passage into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Hip Styles for Blue Chips | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

No previous American artist had touched both highbrow and middlebrow in this way, and few would manage to do so later. Church was an inventive showman. Heart of the Andes, more than 5 ft. by 9 ft., went on view in a trompe l'oeil architectural frame built, literally, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blockbusters of An Inventive Showman | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

Both have been accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars and hiding their fortunes abroad while reducing their poverty-stricken peoples to even worse states of poverty. Both created secret police forces to do their bidding, and both suppressed opponents without mercy. Both seemed to acquire the final illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Tyrants Fall | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

By endorsing 100 percent randomization, the staff wraps itself recklessly in the banner of "diversity," carelessly applying a heavy-handed solution. It sacrifices the principle that a free, educated community can and should direct itself toward its own ideals--gradually if need be--for the illusion that tolerance can be...

Author: By Steven J. Newman, | Title: Don't Go All the Way | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

Q. There are people who would say it is an illusion to think of the poor as joyous, that they must be given housing, raised up.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with MOTHER Teresa: A Pencil In the Hand Of God | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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