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This is the year in which those who market our presidential candidates mastered the art of bypassing the press. As a result, it took until the first debate before issues finally got joined. The merchandising of the candidates will increase while the press, so far with limited success, seeks to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Proving Lincoln Was Right | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

Before the 1920s, according to Mayman, even the study of art was considered an effeminate and unworthy undertaking. Harvard's first professor of Music--and the first in the country--was John Knowles Paine, tenured in 1875. Art historian Charles Eliot Norton was tenured in 1874. Playwright George Pierce Baker...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: State of the Arts | 10/12/1984 | See Source »

But Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein, whose arguments that intelligence is genetically determined prompted students in the early '70s to label him racist and repeatedly shout him down in class, says that while he thinks "the letter is good . . . the University is pretty feeble in its efforts to...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Free Speech on Center Stage, Nationally | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

Warehoused might be a more appropriate term. In an old factory in downtown Los Angeles that has been remodeled to give the effect of a vast, raw artist's studio, some 30 antique and modern cars are displayed like icons. Around the Pierce Arrows, Packards and Mercedes-Benzes are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Auto-Intoxication in Los Angeles | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

Teddy Pierce (Gene Wilder) is a sound husband, father and junior executive who, at a glance, falls prey to an obsession with the leggy Woman in Red (Kelly Le Brock). He is also the leading player in one of this summer's more pungent pleasures: a well-made sex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gams and Guns of August | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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