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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winning design, picked from among 1,421 entries last May in a national competition, was submitted by a Chinese American, Maya Ying Lin, 22. "I've studied funerary architecture, the relation of architecture to death," says Lin. She has pointed the 200-ft.-long walls of her memorial west to the Lincoln Memorial and east to the Washington Monument. On those walls will be listed the names of the 57,709 Americans who died or were declared missing in Viet Nam. The names will appear in chronological, not alphabetical, order (another source of criticism). The roll begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Storm over a Viet Nam Memorial | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...lively, articulate woman who was born in Athens, Ohio, Lin graduated only last May from Yale, where she majored in architecture (and beat out one of her mentors in the Viet Nam competition). It was her concept, rather than her hazy pastel rendering of it, that won over the eight-man jury (four architects, three sculptors and one critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Storm over a Viet Nam Memorial | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...realizes, as she does not, that the Christian epoch will have no room for a necromancer - or an ironic realist. Mer lin's time has come again in the post-Christian 20th century; it is fitting, then, that Williamson expresses both the juicy effluence of hoary ham acting and the quizzical underplaying of the Method. His Merlin is also a perfect avatar of the sorcerer behind the camera. Love Excalibur or hate it, but give Boorman credit for the loopy grandeur of his imagery and imaginings, for the sweet smell of excess, for his heroic gamble that a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Glorious Camp of Camelot | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...turn to face the court, heard their verdicts with the same passive expressions they had worn since the trial began on Nov. 20. Thus, in a dramatic Sunday morning Peking court session, did China, after a mysterious delay of several weeks, conclude the celebrated case of the "Jiang Qing-Lin Biao counterrevolutionary clique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Guilty Verdict: the Gang of Four | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Sixth precinct detectives released the officers immediately after questioning but held Chen overnight and charged him with menacing. Chinatown residents said the police listened only to the housing officers and refused to believe Chen. The officers charged that Lin and Chen were drunk and that they hit Lin in self-defense after he attacked them...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: NYU Student Killed by Policeman | 12/6/1980 | See Source »

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