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The photographers included about twelve too many sittings of average Americans in their native environment: farms, construction sights, gravel pits. The photos that work are the most incongruous: a beach arcade owner plomped smugly against his daily haul: Steven Jobs riding the Couch down the Macintosh assembly line; meat magnate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Color Red | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

Technique intrigued him deeply. To many, plywood seems a contemptible crossbreed, neither natural nor synthetic, but to Aalto it was a perfect hybrid of ancient material and industrial technology. Breuer eventually returned to plywood; after the war, Charles Eames pressed it into subtle topographies that had been beyond Aalto'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Still Fresh after 50 Years | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

The plains of western Wyoming are today a scarred moonscape of gray hills, but 50 million years ago they were mostly swampland, lush with exotic life. Primitive lemurs swung through palm trees, while the first horse, Eohippus, a short-legged creature about the size of a fox terrier, nibbled on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

Friendship '84 was conducted in accordance with the rules, regulations and traditions of the Olympic movement. While protesting that these were not "alternative" games, Soviet officials played up the parallels whenever possible, starting with blatantly nationalist ceremonies. On a gray and drizzly afternoon, the opening festivities at the 103...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Showcases for the No-Shows | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

A novelist can describe time's flow past a few more bends in the river, nothing more. And nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lives in the Flow | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

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