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...spears, all facing each other in objective admiration. The ones in the center of the room are spotlit from the ceiling; their shadows make stars on the carpet. It is said that Alexander's real head slept with a dagger and a copy of the Iliad under the pillow. But what went on inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Alexander Takes Washington | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...over by bacteria: "Now he had" no body. It was all gone. It was under him, but it was filled with a vast pulse of some burning, lethargic drug. It was as if a guillotine had neatly lopped off his head, and his head lay shining on a midnight pillow while the body, below, still alive, belonged to someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sci-Fi Sprints | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...like a father having a pillow fight with his son, letting his child swing away and not caring to provide any tallies of his own. But this wasn't a pillow fight; this was a title fight...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: Where Was Ali? | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...Nixon, exiled King Constantine of Greece, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Alfred Atherton and diplomats from Britain, France, China, Israel, Australia and Morocco. At al-Rifai Mosque, the Shah's silk-shrouded body was placed on its right side by Crown Prince Reza, with its head resting on a pillow of sand, according to Shi'ite custom. On his deathbed the Shah had asked to be buried ultimately in Tehran near his executed generals, named Son Reza as his successor and prayed for the overthrow of the Ayatullah Khomeini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Exile Laid to Rest | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...that she taught her girls all the social graces: "You might say it was a type of charm school." Buyers, many of them female, came from miles around to buy Pamorabilia and get her autograph (price: $2). Among the hottest items at the auction: oven timers, an electric vibrator pillow and a crushed-velvet tiger-striped bedspread with matching curtains. The sale netted several thousand dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Deadwood's Defunct Houses | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

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