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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Whitney Museum's Biennial, which opened last week, is not a real salon. It is too closely preselected for that; entrance is by invitation only. Nonetheless, since 1932 it has been the closest thing to a salon that New York City has had. At least some of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Roundup at the Whitney Corral | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

The 6-ft. 9-in. Bird was a model of calm consistency in last week's 100-75 victory over West Texas. He effortlessly scored 27 points, grabbed 19 rebounds and passed brilliantly. "You can't take your eyes off him one second or he'll hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pure Gold in The Corn Belt | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Midway through the second period the networks cut the disaster off the air. No one ever did learn the final score. Congress scheduled hearings on the affair. Kissinger mournfully intoned that once again the Carter Administration had not understood the use of power: we should never have given the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armageddon in the Superdome | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Ostensibly, Agatha is a fiction that attempts to fill in the lacunae in the historical record of one of this century's least pressing but most fascinating enigmas: that ten-day period in 1926 when Agatha Christie, that shy and eminently respectable mystery writer, seemed to disappear off the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Restoration | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

"A candy store is open every day of the week," writes Asimov of those early days. "In some respects, it made me an orphan." The demands of the store cut him off from his parents; Isaac's behavior severed him from his contemporaries. For he was not only brighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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