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...people took on scale and emotional weight. After he fled Hitler, those were the qualities that recommended him to the editors of LIFE, where in 1936 he became one of its four original photographers. It was part of his gift to recognize that history could be made in the placid American suburbs just as surely as it was made in Berlin...
...daughter of a jazz musician, the New Jersey-born Lafferty originally sought a more placid career than her father's by attending Southwestern University School of Law, where Simpson trial prosecutor Marcia Clark had graduated 16 years before. "I knew after a year or so that lawyering was not for me, and I dropped out," she explains. "Clark hung in." After working as an assistant press secretary for a New York state senator and then as a newspaper and free-lance journalist, she started with Time as a Los Angeles stringer in 1988. Pre-O.J., she contributed to eight...
...taken by cultural America-firsters as a manifesto of secession, but it wasn't. He knew that real originality is made, not born; that it doesn't appear in spasms and tics but rather in a long digestive process, modified by anxiety. And he was a ruminator: placid, sometimes, on the surface, but an artist of incalculably deep feeling. Along with Jackson Pollock, his polar opposite in every way, he was probably the most original American painter of the 20th century...
...from the Utah capital sprang from their seats when the International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...
...event, for better or worse, that eragave us the kind of education we couldn't hope togain in more placid times...