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...early Dali was a different matter, an insecure and ravenously aggressive young dandy, wringing an uncanny poetry not only from his own neurosis but also from the psychic inflammations of Europe in the 1920s and '30s. Like his fellow Catalan Joan Miro, Dali was deep-dyed with images of place, among them the contorted rocks and flat beaches of the coast near the town of Figueras, where he grew up, and the flowing, bizarre buildings of Barcelona's master of art nouveau, Antonio Gaudi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Salvadore Dali,The Embarrassing Genius | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...resulting 50-room, $10 million confection takes up all of the 68th and most of the 66th and 67th floors of the tower. The building actually has only 58 floors, but Trump felt that wasn't sufficiently impressive, so he skipped some floor numbers to give his tenants a psychic boost. "He would have loved to build another ten floors," says architect Scutt, "but he couldn't because of zoning rules, so he changed the numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flashy Symbol of an Acquisitive Age: DONALD TRUMP | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...sense, psychic salvation is just an elevator ride away. In the lobby of the Time & Life Building, I can obtain an impressive desktop planner offered by our sister publication FORTUNE magazine. But I just could not imagine treating the appointment book's appendices, filled with FORTUNE 500 listings, as a personal breviary. Let others run with the bulls and the bears; the symbol of my investment strategy has always been the Cowardly Lion. To me, a term like "covering a short position" refers to St. Louis Cardinal infielder Ozzie Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The First Crisis of the New Year | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...outset of the play, we are introduced to Charles Condomine (Peter Hirsch) and his present wife Ruth (Elizabeth Humphrey), who are living a peaceful life in the English countryside. But peace is disturbed when Charles calls upon local psychic Madame Arcati (Traci Miadich) to assemble information for one of his new books. With the appearance of Charles's dead wife Elvira (Holly Cate), the humdrum existence of the Condomines is completely overturned...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Ghost Blusters | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...billion fleet of nuclear-powered submarines or the multitude of corruption scandals that have plagued the Mulroney government are only incidental entertainments amid the imbroglios over free trade. And because the issue touches the core of Canada's sense of itself as a nation and its psychic separation from the U.S., the topic is dangerously flammable, an invitation to a spark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gut Issue | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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