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Take "See You In Paradise. "Not only is that the sort of title a hippie mystic like Morrison would invent, but the opening piano chords mimic the Irish guru's "Bright Side Of The Road" with no mean precision. Similarly, "First Time," a rave up with some inspired drumming, sounds...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: All Fools Day | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

IT WASN'T just because of the bad "entertainment," which comes as a part of every year's ceremony, although certainly watching Telly Savalas, Pat Morita and Dom DeLouise romp through a number from Guys and Dolls was a treat to be savored. It wasn't just that Bette Davis...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: Sentimental Favoritism | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

The war, which evoked so little from French artists, inspired some English ones to their best work; Paul Nash's A Night Bombardment, 1919-20, a view of the sea of cratered mud and dead trees at the front, is both formally rigorous and filled -- though not a figure appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Singular And Grand | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Rhodes, a novelist and social chronicler (Looking for America), has a firm hold on the fundamentals of nuclear physics. He describes the first millisecond of the atomic age in New Mexico with eerie precision: "The firing circuit closed; the X-unit discharged; the detonators at 32 detonation points simultaneously fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chain Reactions $ THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Still, it was the big diamond in the sky, 1987A, that was getting most of the attention last week. While the supernova shines in southern hemisphere skies, most of the world's astronomers are in the northern half of the world, and they are scrambling to find ways of viewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supernova! | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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