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...important factor is considering a scientist for the deanship is that the job would mean dealing his career in research, given the breakneck development of scientific discoveries today. For this reason, professor's say, a scientist would probably the more length than a humanist to put aside his academic career for five to 10 years to take on the deanship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Search | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...number of other negative factors could keep the superpowers at arm's length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soviet Walkout | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...same time, many legislatures have doubled and tripled the length of minimum prison sentences. Between 1970 and 1980, the number of inmates serving minimum terms of six years or more at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole rose from 28% to 60%. In addition, about ten states (most recently Florida in October) have effectively abolished parole and adopted what is known as "determinate" sentencing, under which an offender's term is based on the seriousness of his crime and the nature of his past record. At the same time, parole boards in more than a dozen other states have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Growing Crisis Behind Bars | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

Always, in his paintings, one feels that things are happening on the other side of the frame, which is a virtual proscenium. It is exactly this removal that equipped him so well, at the outset, as a stage designer. As Friedman argues at some length in his text (and as a group of Hockney's easel paintings, included in the show, makes clear), theater has never been far from the core of his art. His shallow space quotes the conventions of the stage: flats, curtains, wings. There is a taste for exotic figures (red Indians, ancient Egyptians) and stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: All the Colors of the Stage | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...takes its title, plot and comic-grotesque tone from a 1932 film directed by Howard Hawks, written by Ben Hecht and John Lee Mahin and starring Paul Muni as a lightly fictionalized, heavily romanticized Al Capone. That Scarface ran 90 minutes; this one ambles along at nearly twice the length. The first film has a screwball-comedy briskness that made Tony an outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out social message. The new Scarface is at bottom a bitter comedy about the perils of drug abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Say Good Night to the Bad Guy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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