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...Gogh's Arlesian work offers one of the most moving narratives of development in Western art: a painter-and, needless to repeat, a very great one-inventing a landscape as it invents him. The inevitable result is that one cannot visit Aries without seeing Van Goghs everywhere. The fishing boats on the dark beach of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer have gone, and the fishermen's troglodytic cottages are now replaced by anthill apartment buildings. But to see an Arlesian orchard foaming into April bloom is to glimpse Van Gogh rendering them ("Absolutely clear ... A frenzy of impastos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Visionary, Not the Madman | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...Needless to say, she had heard of him, and says now that her friendship with Parker was instrumental in easing the transition to Harvard's crew program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Devin Mahony | 10/20/1984 | See Source »

...Merola, a four-term Democrat. Donovan claimed that the jury was doing nothing more than "a rehash" of "the baseless allegations" that Silverman had investigated. It was all "a witch hunt," he said. The Labor Secretary said he had hired independent experts to give him lie-detector tests, and "needless to say, I passed with flying colors." Declared Donovan: "I will not be indicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Out for the Defense | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...communicate so loudly or intrusively as to invade another's privacy without justification. No one is free to speak in such a way as to create a "clear and present danger" of inflicting immediate harm on others, a principle illustrated by Justice Holmes's famous example of causing needless panic by falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. In rare situations where choices must be made among competing applicants--as when two groups seek to use the same forum at the same time--officials must choose between them on some reasonable basis even though the effect may be to favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

...plans and figure out another way to get through central Europe. Every bridge and railway track and alpine tunnel is mined and ready to blow up whenever needed. The army is scheduled to go into full mobilization in 48 hours. In practice, it rarely taker half that long. And, needless to add, the Swiss have prepared for nuclear attack with the most complete array of shelters and civil defense plans in the world...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: Just Like Clockwork | 9/18/1984 | See Source »

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