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...every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino and Calima - shared, whatever their differences of society and religion, a superb instinct for the vital shape. Whether the object is a heart-shaped Calima pectoral with a fierce mask glaring from the center of its luxuriant curves, or a Muisca votive figure whose torso is compressed and flattened into a long triangular wedge of gold, or the magnificent Tairona pectoral with its three...
...Wagner, Stott & Co., specialists in the stock, bought 35,000 shares for its own account, the price of the stock continued to drift down to a Wednesday close of 46½. By week's end it had recovered only to 50⅞. Veteran Wall Streeters blamed a herd instinct among institutional money managers to unload immediately a stock that had been publicly labeled risky-or, in other words, panic...
...quit school to sign on as a cub reporter with a Bristol paper. Starting on the police beat, he was eventually reviewing films and plays. In retrospect, he says, "I didn't really enjoy it. I felt I was a critic by instinct, not by credentials. I kept thinking I only put into print what other people were saying in the bar during intermission." Nonetheless, he made amusing use of the experience later when he wrote The Real Inspector Hound (TIME, May 8, 1972), a caustic spoof of two rather addlepated drama critics flexing their cliches on an Agatha...
...adrenaline of competition. If winning does not matter, asked Adolph Rupp, former University of Kentucky basketball coach, why does anyone bother to keep score? Yes, but everyone knows the competitive excesses that inequality also encourages: the ruthless athlete who thinks that sportsmanship is for losers, the politician with the instinct for the jugular, the predatory businessman who exults in crushing rivals...
...exhilaration in the actors. as if they all finally have a chance to show their skills without worrying about making their career by giving transcendent performances or surrendering to constricting roles. And the glamor of the story seems to inspire them--they act by reflex rather than by instinct, they practice what they know. No one strains because the humor--basically Three Stooges, banana peel, breach-of-dignity stuff--has the dashing characters play as if they'd seen too much Douglas Fairbanks themselves. When every swinging rope snaps and every fencing would heals almost instantly, they don't have...