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Welliver's kind of realism could have matured only in the past 25 years A.P.-After Pollock. His paintings are saturated with the ideas about surface and space that abstract paintings put into currency in America. They have less to do with locating a set of objects in the...

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

In such a world the escapes must be extravagant and complete and Oates allows her heroines outlets that would have eluded their real life counterparts. Time travel exists in Bloodsmoor Valley and a magical are protects each sister's life. Reality loses definition and their prissy but a affectionate narrator...

Author: By Cira Simon, | Title: There and Back Again | 9/30/1982 | See Source »

She was thought to be patrician, although her parents, a former magazine cover model and an Irish bricklayer grown wealthy as a contractor, certainly did not qualify as aristocrats in Philadelphia. Nor did Grace, the princess of an amusement park, ever qualify as a Main Line aristocrat there despite her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess From Hollywood | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

Could anything be more of a family operation? And like every family, the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. had given everybody the illusion that it would live more or less happily ever after. Then Elden Hathaway turned 65, thought some, and quietly sold for $50,000 the stock in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: Don't Yank the Crank | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

In an effort to put some sparkle back into the diamond industry, De Beers has launched a heavy, worldwide advertising campaign. Even before the famous slogan "A diamond is forever" was coined in 1948, ads linking the polished stones with romance and marriage were routinely used to boost sales. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gem That Lost Its Luster | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

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