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Sixth, Some athletes would be happy being sixth on the ladder of their local bowling league, but trackster Jenny Stricker isn't even content with having run the sixth fastest women's two mile in the world. The record which the modest sophomore is quick to point out was broken a half hour later in the same meet, is typical of the consistent performer who has helped to re surrect the women's track team...

Author: By Mark Mead, | Title: Jenny Stricker | 5/3/1983 | See Source »

...firm, will not be released officially for a few weeks, but it is already making network executives squirm. The report is based on a poll of 1,500 viewers and follows up a similar study made six years ago. The responses, which come from all rungs on the socioeconomic ladder, indicate that TV is playing an increasingly less important role in people's lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Bad News for Broadcasters | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...grinds up a few sacred cows and serves them for dinner. Just for starters, it realistically portrays a secure, middle-American marriage bound together not be love, but by hate. Martha Susannah Rabbi, an unhappy academic wife shiewishly taunts her younger husband for tailing to move up the academic, ladder at the small college where he teaches history, and where her Lather is president. Her husband George Christopher Keyser) retorts with pointed references to her accumulating years and alleged infidelities. Throughout, he refers to her in a variety of zoological references and at one point speaks of an imaginary child...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Savaging Americana | 3/16/1983 | See Source »

...outside Chicago, Chris Quigg whimsically conceded, "They walk like Ws and talk like Ws." Rubbia was both ebullient and philosophical. Noting that scientists have been chopping matter into ever finer pieces since the time of the Greeks, he said, "We may not yet be at the end of the ladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On the Trail of the Bashful W | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...some of the best work of his career. Some of it involves materials quite new in his oeuvre, most notably clay. The star piece in the show at Castelli is Dirt Shrine: South, 1982, a pseudo combine in which all the disparate elements (tire track, painted chain, stone, bamboo ladder) were made from fired ceramic in Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from photographs-is fired into the glaze. The result, a hybrid of traditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Arcadian as Utopian | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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