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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...departments have all gone through name changes: National Affairs (now Nation), Foreign News (now World) and Finance (now Economy & Business). Many of the original sections, however, including Art, Cinema, Education, Music, Religion and Science, still appear under their original headings. These sections have been joined by several successful newcomers. Modern Living, now called Living, began looking at American mores and manners in 1961. Law, which had appeared occasionally in the 1920s and '30s, became a fixture in 1963. Essay made its debut in 1965. Behavior and Environment got their start in 1969, and Sexes in 1973. Since 1978 American Scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Oct. 7, 1985 | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...awareness about the way they look and feel. Responding to that interest, the magazine this week inaugurates a new section, called Health & Fitness, with an evaluation of how well Americans shape up, along with the latest news about nutrients. Says Managing Editor Ray Cave: "A major change in modern life has been the increasing understanding of the benefits of fitness and preventive medicine. It is not a fad or craze. It is not a jog, it is here for the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Oct. 7, 1985 | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...many heirs could pay in art rather than cash, and that is what they finally did, a decision that has given France, where the painter lived for 68 of his 91 years, the greatest Picasso collection in the world. (The runner-up: Manhattan's Museum of Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Museum for Picasso's Picassos | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...Claude Picasso thought that works of the prophet of modernism should have been housed in a modern building. Others pointed out that Picasso himself had never built nor lived in a new building and preferred his monumental paintings to be hung in monumental spaces. The antimodernists prevailed, perhaps fortunately, given the deplorable standards of new French architecture. The Hotel Sale, built in 1656, was chosen. Located in the Marais district, the museum is a short walk from the Pompidou Center, whose exterior is closer to an oil refinery than a museum of modern art. Conversion of the dilapidated Sale began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Museum for Picasso's Picassos | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

From madrigals to Mozart to Motown to modern, the freshman coed singing group--which has already had 60 people try out for the 16 sports--is going head-to-head with the four other Harvard a cappella singing groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Move Over, Kroks and Dins: Here Come the 'Veritones' | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

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