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...simple as possible and should not occupy more than 10% of the plot. Steps and pathways were carved into the rocks. Lava was used to form the walls; for variety, they were sometimes stained rust, pale green, pale blue or ?the favorite color of the Mexican peasant?bright pink. Water was run over craggy stone or along the wall tops, seeping down to aid the growth of moss. On the street side, the walls were blank, shutting out the city and its noise. Buyers were few at first, but eventually the once despised El Pedregal lava plain became Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Master of Serenity | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Battling back from strep throat and a pregame warm-up blow that knocked him out cold, Crimson goalie John Lechner joined the tank-like defensive trio of Haywood Miller, Frank Prezioso and Scott Pink to hold the UMass squad at bay for the entire second round...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Stickmen Crunch UMass, 11-8 | 5/7/1980 | See Source »

...James Lee Byars painstakingly centers on the front desk top a one-inch by one-inch public announcement of his exhibit; he measures an imaginary square to frame it and places the announcement lovingly in the middle. Then he searches the museum for a suitable vase for the precious pink rose (one of many which he distributed that morning) which lies next to the announcement; but he fails, slightly annoyed that a German Museum should lack such a common object. This is the delicate introduction to "The Exhibit of Perfect...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: Nothing is Perfect | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...work. He created "The Perfect Kiss," at Berkeley's University Art Museum, a show in which Byars "mounted a low, white platform in one corner, composed himself for a moment, then pursed his lips." On the first of May Byars will depart for Italy to design a 100-foot pink flag for the Venice Biennial Celebration. Byars says that he also runs the "World Question Center," and he adds that he is the only one left in it. The skeptic will naturally ask "Is this his imaginative, and perhaps vain name for his own inquisitive mind?" Byars will answer...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: Nothing is Perfect | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

Charles River critters have a distinguished history in the development and testing of vitamins, antibiotics, insulin, contraceptives and cancer drugs. Now the company has another product: the nude, athymic mouse, a hairless, pink-colored model bred without a thymus, the gland that helps the body develop immunity against outside infection. The first of these mice was an unexpected mutation, which was then bred to other mice in the Charles River labs. Now the company turns out more than 250,000 of these beasts annually. They are especially useful in cancer research because they will not reject a tumor transplant like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mighty Mice | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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