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At its worst, the creature's sting produces mutants: witness the work of David Gilhooly, 38. Gilhooly does pottery frogs; rafts of them, dressed up as Mao Tse Toad, posing as the Gautama Buddha or smothering-deep social commentary, this-beneath piles of super market produce. This kind of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Molding the Human Clay | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Good photographers are among the last survivors of a more swashbuckling era of journalism. As the news has become more complicated, a good reporter does much of his best work at his desk sifting through piles of research to understand and make to his readers the likes of SALT and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Images: Freezing Moments in History | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

It had a most unmelodic song, like the sound of someone shoveling gravel. But when U.C.L.A. Ornithologist Jared Dia mond crept forward for a closer look, he encountered a bizarre and beautiful spectacle. As he reported at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last week, there in a mile-high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Artful Builder | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

This is The Wizard of Oz for the '80s, alright. The Pythonic theme--nothing you know is sacred or even really there--suddenly seems a huge, monstrous thing to impose on kids like Kevin; he is left with only a sackful of Polaroids and two piles of ashes where his...

Author: By --david M. Handelman, | Title: A Victim of the Modern Age | 11/6/1981 | See Source »

Gance's focus, on the other hand, fixes the flow of history in a series of static images that capture in them all the horror and irony of the French Revolution. While The Terror creates a murderous chaos in the streets, Gance turns suddenly to an enclosed office: the nerve...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Liberty and Tyranny | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

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