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...performed more cheaply by cruise missiles, which are also being constructed with radar-eluding Stealth technology." Furthermore, according to Time, the missiles might be even more effective than the Stealth because the Stealth cannot find targets on its own. It must depend on satellite communications, which the Soviets could jam. And other factors such as mid-air refueling and high flying Soviet planes may make the Stealth as radar-visible as any other plane...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Say `Maybe' to the Stealth | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...sincere attitude (and in the case of U2 I don't doubt it started out sincere and was eventually co-opted by the forces of commerce) is having an attitude. Enough with Sting's image as the politically correct artiste extraordinare who can rock out with the boys, jam with Black jazz musicians, do the classical thespian thing, father a host of love children and be just the eccentric country gentleman donating his time and energy to worthy causes. I mean, aren't we bohemian? Gimme a break...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Where's Rock's Sincerity? | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...When painting was required to be thin, linear and efflorescent, Kossoff stuck to delving into the images and people around him and the memories within. His scenes of public baths, markets and Underground entrances are packed with small figures, stuck in their social matrix as though in jam (especially given Kossoff's dense pigment) -- a pictorial equivalent, as it were, of the double meaning of the Hebrew word olam, which means world but also crowd. A painting like A Street in Willesden, 1985, reminds one of how pointless the stereotypes about English art have become. It is not anecdotal, witty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Tortoise Obsessed with Oily Stuff | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

Jazz Musicians Jam at Agassiz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

...started at last June's Grad Jam for former members of undergrad a capella groups. Peter F. Miller '85, formerly of the Krokodiloes, ran into three friends from the same group: Jeffery A. Korn '86, T.H. Culhane '85 and Paul I. Sagawa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

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