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When Wade hunches over his banjo, he is a figure of rapturous communion, a man lost in a love affair with an instrument. The songs may be poignantly plaintive, boisterously celebratory or ironically funny. His fingers pluck the strings with steely precision or waft over them like a passing zephyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pipes of Pan | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

"The EIS,"Cohen wrote, "was sufficient in its scope and detail to provide the Administrator with sufficient facts to make an 'eyes open' judgment whether or not to fund the project, even though the EIS, because of its sheer scope, could not detail with more precision upon whose block each...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Federal Ruling Fails to Alter Subway Plan | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

They are periodical cicadas (pronounced sih-Kay-duhs), the world's longest-lived insects. Despite a locust-like appearance, they neither bite nor sting nor devastate vegetation. Entomologists currently count 19 separate "broods," which appear at various times in different parts of the country, some once every 13 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wedding Whirs | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

THERE'S STILL some good music on Wave-"Frederick," an ode to Rimbaud set to a tune suspiciously like Smith's only hit, "Because The Night;" "Dancing Barefoot," in which she sings with more precision than she has yet managed; and "Broken Flag," a sweeping anthem to her curious idea...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Notes from Underground? | 5/23/1979 | See Source »

This last accomplishment has brought Thomas more attention than all the others put together. A collection of 29 of his essays was published in 1974 under the title The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. No one expected much, least of all the author. For one thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Celebration of Life | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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