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...second was its tenacious originality. O'Keeffe was as thoroughly American as Joan Miro -- whose clarity and depth of space her work sometimes distantly recalled -- was Catalan; her paintings remind those sated with cross-cultural quotation that major art is more apt to spring from deep allegiances to specific experience than from isms. She did not go to Europe until she was 65. When she saw Mont Ste.-Victoire from Cezanne's studio above Aix-en-Provence, she characteristically called it "a poor little mountain" -- which it is, in a way, compared with the landscapes that surround her Ghost Ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Vision of Steely Finesse: Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-198 | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...Joan Benoit-Samuelson, the Olympic gold medalist in the marathon who set a world record last year in the America's Marathon, was named the winner of the Sullivan award as the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union's top athlete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

...resulting images are like windows into a distinctly shaped but largely unrecognizable world. They have more than a little in common with surrealism; one thinks of the Pandora's box of little involuntary creatures, buzzing and defecating and copulating, that Joan Miro opened in the 1920s. And like those dreambugs, Winters' fungi and spores have a distinctly human air. In their aggregation, they refer to social structures: hives, crowds, nests, colonies. They suggest hierarchies and sometimes conflict. But all this is decidedly muffled, submerged so far in the paint that it hardly works as allegory. Winters does not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Obliquely Addressing Nature | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Former business manager Joan H. M. Hsiao '86 says "We're predominantly wealthy Jews from New York and we hurt in terms of not having a very diverse group. It's really a sad factor...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Working and Playing | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

...believes little attention was given to deterring the larger evil. "It's an absolute shame that the Supreme Court has to take such a gruesome crime to make a social statement," says Deputy Kings County Planner Bill Zumwalt, who had been a member of Marlene's high school class. Joan Pegues, assistant city editor of the Hanford Sentinel, puts it more simply: "When you say 'Hillery' around here, people turn purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Seeing Justice Never Done | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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