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...hero, David Wark Griffith seemed more suited to be a child of 19th century lost causes than a pioneer of the art form of the future. But once the young actor walked into Biograph film studios on New York City's East 14th Street, the movies came to possess him as his romance of romances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Romantic | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...pact of free association, giving the Marshall Islands control over their internal and foreign affairs, so long as it does not conflict with U.S. authority for security and defense. Such an agreement is the equivalent of telling an elephant it has the right to fly, knowing that it possess no such capability. As one Micronesia representative remarked...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: A Failed Trust | 4/7/1984 | See Source »

...lives in this area among the palmettos, scrub oaks, fiddler crabs, and slave descendants who speak Gullah and keep the faith at Marvin's R.O. Sweet Shop and Baby Grand. There, Simons says, "I am a celebrity because I'm white, not even teen-age yet, and possess the partial aura of the Duchess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Auspicious, Artful and Amusing Debuts | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...asked the church to send priests to visit military command posts and give talks on human rights to soldiers and officers. "The origin of the revolution has its roots in tremendous social injustice. The violence will not disappear until that injustice is reduced." Monsignor Rivera y Damas does not possess the charisma of Monsignor Romero, but beneath his affable air and sleepy eyes, he is extremely shrewd. Many say that he has managed to unite progressives and conservatives in the Salvadoran church with his moderate position. His theory that only reforms will neutralize insurrection is quite similar to Duarte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democracy Among the Ruins | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...doubt about it, Picasso painted many bad and some flatly absurd pictures at the end of his life. But the good ones are so good, and in such a weird way, that they utterly transfix the eye, while the drawings (and some of the vast outflow of etchings) possess an assurance, a sensuous ferocity that no other living artist could approach, let alone rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Picasso: The Last Picture Show | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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