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...innovator. Nothing he did called attention to his technique. But it was always there, if virtually invisible. His most famous scene, the shower-murder episode in Psycho, contains 78 separate shots in 45 seconds of screen time. Though a grisly homicide is portrayed, moviegoers never actually see the knife touch Janet Leigh's naked flesh; they just think they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Master of Existential Suspense | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...stout handle with a piece of jagged, rusted metal still attached to one end, by jumping the fence into a restricted area and taking it from behind a tool shed. From the power plant I stole a short length of steel pipe and from the kitchen a table knife. I sharpened the table knife on cement, the way I had a similar one at Danbury when I learned from the authorities that an informer had told the FBI there was a contract out on me and I declined official protection in favor of my own method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Watergate's Sphinx Speaks | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...dressed except for shoes, and arranged the covers over me. Lying alongside my body under the blanket was the big ax handle. I could sweep that handle out in a second and knock two men off their feet by striking directly at their knees. In my hand was the knife, and the pipe was under my pillow. I was ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Watergate's Sphinx Speaks | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...could to cope with the emergency. Today he is worried about what has happened to his town. Said he: "This used to be a pretty unified community. Now it's divided between pro-nuke and antinuke. There's a tension here you can cut with a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Legacy off Three Mile Island | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

Thus, again and again, the landscape tables refer to something other than landscape. Knife in the Rock, 1970, for example, suggests the pointed blade of a Japanese tanto (short sword) impressed in the stone, as though the granite were wax. But, in general, landscape is the sole image, and its core is the stone itself, with its obdurate beauty, dark crystalline structure and archaic associations with ritual and shelter. As a result, a piece like Double Red Mountain, 1969, functions both as a highly stylized image of Zen landscape and as a more Western object, tinged with surrealist fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sense and Subtlety in Stone | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

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