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...exhibition sometimes argues with its own thesis: often the subject must have selected a likeness to amuse a friend or cloud the public image. William Faulkner, who liked to characterize himself as a back-country farmer, chose a gelatinous, Hollywood-issue publicity shot, with only his pipe in sharp focus, to give to the woman who would become his mistress. The message Faulkner intended to convey with the photo-apparently taken during one of his scriptwriting stints-is as blurred as his visage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: As They Wanted to Be Seen | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...seemed to lumber ponderously down the runway for years, but now cable television is definitely airborne. A quarter of the nation's 77.8 million TV homes are hooked up to one of the 4,600 local cable companies that pipe into living rooms everything from first-run movies, hard-sell religion and soft-core porn shows to kiddie programs and the proceedings of Congress live. Cable-systems owners, present or prospective, are as hot on Wall Street as genetic engineering firms, and advertisers are beginning to eye cable TV as a promising vehicle for commercials. Though at present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informercials | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...library and the ceremony were like Ford himself-low key, square corners, functional and direct. Ford presided, with his pipe and his smile at the ready, looking a dozen years younger than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Jerry Ford's One-Man Show | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...Valentine's Day, 1975, Sir Pelham, 93, fell asleep in his chair, pipe half filled, writing materials beside him. So lived and died the character P.G. Wodehouse had labored to create: a perfect gentleman and a happy writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Six Lives, Two Centuries | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...keeps a computerized inventory of all street surfaces, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and stop lights. Water-main breaks and cracks in the pavement are rigorously recorded, as are the costs of repairing them. The city, for example, annually cleans out 26% of its sewers, and trouble-prone stretches of underground pipe are inspected by subterranean television cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A City That Still Works | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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