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...only alternative to despair Townshend gives us is the same offered by all rock musicians with pretensions--the power of their own music. "Guitar and Pen," a bouncy, playful tune, the most good-natured one on the album, predictably tells us just what an artist's only friends...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: One Last Time Around | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

...paintings, valued at $50,000, included "A Portrait of a Standing Young Man Holding a Pen," by Cornelius Van Haarlem, worth $30,000. They were stolen from the home of Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Recovered Art Haul Includes Paintings Stolen in '76 From Harvard Professor | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...women's fencing teams not only perform at a decent level of competition, but they also provide opportunities for demented sorts at The Crimson to pen the goriest headlines all year...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sports at Harvard: Hard to Figure | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...brick courthouse in Point á la Hache. As he strides to his seat on the council dais, under a mounted blue marlin, a commissioner shows him a proposed zoning change. "That's not the way we're going to do it," Perez replies, pulling out a pen. "What they have to do is buy this piece here and start subdividing like this." During the meeting, he reads out his resolutions, adding, almost as an afterthought, "Moved by Mr. Petrovich, seconded by Mr. Kirby and adopted unanimously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: The Legacy of a Parish Boss Lives On | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...eyes of central bankers. Australia, Italy, France and The Netherlands, all financial allies of the U.S., have revalued their gold holdings from the old official rate of $35 an ounce to the prevailing market price, thus multiplying the value of their reserves with the scratch of a pen. The U.S., which has not joined the revaluation trend, still reckons the worth of its 8,516-ton gold hoard at $35 an ounce, or $ 11.5 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Greenbacks Under the Gun | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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