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...itself seems much in favor of being early to bed-it also follows Ben Franklin's advice on the other end of light. People are out of the chute and into a capitalistic day before a Type B visitor can finish the front page. Dallas. The chest-beating lyric will be heard a lot in the coming week: "Big D-little a-double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Off for the G.O.P. | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...list of projects included two full-length historical films. One would concern Tories vs. Loyalists, the other the age of revolution. Both would be "mystical," "Virgilian" epics of a "prenatal nation." These were in addition to an "antiCommunist manifesto," a "new form of movie short roughly equivalent to the lyric poem," and some "pieces of writing whose rough parallel is the prophetic writing of the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captive Poet | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...possesses good eyesight, imagination and memory. "The memory is a well," she said, "united" with the imagination in producing fiction. "Whatever you send down it comes back up deeper." From down the street there came the sound of little girls singing, a Ring-Around-the-Rosy sort of lyric, and if Welty did not hear it, it was nothing she had not heard before. Comes the day she needs the sound of child song for a page, she will remember it, sharply. -By Gregory Jaynes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mississippi: A Diamond Jubilee | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...masterpiece and is regularly taken for one, though its composition has the spottily grand look of an academic mistake. But the figure of Balthus's blond wife, hands stretched above her head, rising from the dark plateau into the zone of early-morning sun, is a prime lyric invention; and the color has a resonant, hallucinated distinctness that brings early Mird to mind. Balthus would eventually paint some of the best landscapes of his time. The pick of them, perhaps, is Larchant, 1939, with its luminous sheet of sky and its mellow, precise inter-lockings of building, field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poisoned Innocence, Surface Calm | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

Gaye's sudden death is perhaps most disturbing seen against the sudden rebirth of his career. Like John Lennon, Gaye seemed to be beginning a third decade of musical influence. He translated "Let's Get it On" into "Sexual Healing," with the eighties touch apparent in the lyric, "Whenever blue teardrops are falling and my emotional stability is leaving me/There is someting I can do. I can get on the telephone and call you up baby." He added the strength of his new religion in the song "My Love is Waiting," and a sense of Third World struggles in "Third...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: A Life of Musical Healing | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

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