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...between the small, exactly registered perception and the grand, generalized effect. Still's colors tend to repetition, the drawing is clumsy, and the paint surface is often crude; he has a way of crushing his pigments into clots and straggles of shiny impasto that works badly against the mat ground. Thus his visual language can look dour and forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Tempest in the Paint Pot | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Business leaders in other fields cheer Chrysler's off-the-mat selling drive, but many oppose federal aid. True, a number agree with Zenith Chairman John Nevin, who argues, "I don't think you can casually stand aside and watch a company the size of Chrysler go down. You have to calculate the cost of Chrysler going under and ask if it is worth something to prevent that." But many more echo Clarence Barksdale, chairman of the First National Bank in St. Louis: "If you have any belief in the free-enterprise system, you have to let weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: $1 a Year? | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Egypt, Morocco, the Bahamas and now Mexico. With yet another welcome mat yanked away, Cuernavaca was the latest stop for Iran's deposed Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Wife Farah, Son Reza, 18, and their royal entourage. After unpacking in a walled-in, eleven-bedroom villa ringed by cypress and bougainvillaea, the Shah resumed his tennis at the posh Cuernavaca Racquet Club and spoke briefly to newsmen. What of events back home? "Obviously, my heart is bleeding." One more move, north of the border? "It would depend on whether we were welcome." Henry Kissinger, for one, certainly believes they should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 25, 1979 | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...rebellion against their overlords in Tehran for generations. During the early 1970s, the Shah aided the Kurds, who were fighting a guerrilla war to gain autonomy for their sector of northern Iraq. The U.S. tacitly backed the rebellion, encouraging the Shah to supply the Kurds with arms and matériel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Entering a Troubled New Year | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...late finish of this weekend's Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships at Princeton, N.J., The Crimson could not report the results of the matches. A complete roundup of all the mat action will appear on the Tuesday sports page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLD ON, WRESTLING FANS! | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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