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But many advertisers say that they detect a more subtle, almost schizophrenic attitude among consumers. E.E. Norris, executive vice president of the Manhattan ad agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, has nicknamed this the "splurge or scrimp" mentality. He argues that today's consumers are willing to spend heavily on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Consumers Feel the Pinch | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

To the end, as suggested in the following portfolio of intimate photos by David Douglas Duncan, Picasso remained Picasso: an indefatigable worker, a lover of mischief and pranks, quirky, increasingly aloof, mercurial, yet often remarkably generous and warm. In Viva Picasso, a book to be published by Viking next fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Trajectories of Genius | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

Father Farley has made his peace and lost his vocation. In one agonizing moment late in the play, he shakes his head in bewilderment and says, "I don't know what I believe any more." The scene is made all the more poignant since we have been seeing what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gift of Grace | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

Tito reveled in the applause, just as he relished a number of decidedly unproletarian luxuries. He dressed in stylishly tailored suits, as well as bemedaled uniforms that Churchill once called Tito's "gold-lace straitjacket." He traveled in a Mercedes-Benz limousine, a lavish yacht and a special train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Maverick Who Defied Moscow | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

In the middle of the din at N'jili International Airport outside Kinshasa, the capital of Zaïre, was Pope John Paul II. Occasionally mopping his brow with a handkerchief in the tropical humidity, he greeted President Mobutu Sese Seko and other dignitaries, then boarded an open Mercedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope to Africa: Mvidi Mukulu | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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