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Thus when Connie Kalitta wrinkles one of the main struts supporting his wing in a qualifying run at 3 p.m. Friday, he takes only a moment to study the damage. He props a two-by-eight board under the wing, lifting the dragster a couple of inches off the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Old-Fashioned Ingenuity on Wheels | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan's State of the Union address was a gigantic production featuring fleets of black limousines, sirens, the glowing Capitol dome, trench-coated TV stars, champagne and prime television time. When Les Brown's annual State of the World report was launched one morning last week, the stage props...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: An Opposing View | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

It was Kline's misfortune to die before he had worked out the big change of his mature style, from black and white to color. At the same time, there was never much interest in his early efforts. The paintings of industrial landscapes from his youth, city streets, bar scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Energy in Black and White | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Among the younger designers, jokes tend to be about the future, but a future as it was conceived in a more hopeful past. It is a neat trick. This strain of the new-wave sensibility is an ironic mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Even the staging worked against a lively performance. The stage props, a tree and a stairwell, crowded out the nearly 20 performers on the already cramped stage. Dance and summersaults on stage became frustrated acrobatics as actors struggled to jump onto the tree in order to make room for the...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Lackluster Sorcery | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

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