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...splashes and splotches, drippings and oily rag montages of contemporary art are commonly explained by their producers as deep self-expression of their innermost being--a goal they gain largely from the works of Vincent van Gogh. But self-expression has sadly declined since the 1880's and van Gogh...

Author: By Michael S. Gruen, | Title: Vincent van Gogh | 4/9/1962 | See Source »

...estate falls partly to Viridiana, partly to Jorge, the uncle's practical, unprincipled, illegitimate son. Jorge works hard to make his half of the hacienda a paying proposition. Viridiana turns her half into a refuge for the rag, tag and bobtail of the province-beggars, footpads, lepers, trulls. While Jorge and his hired men work, Viridiana and her rabble pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orare Est La bora re? | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

American boatniks, now 7,000,000 strong, have two great compulsions: to get out on the water, and to trade their boats in for something bigger and better. This week in Manhattan, rag-haulers and stinkpotters thronged the New York Coliseum to see the bigger and better at the 52nd National Motor Boat Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Boats Ahoy | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...tough babies," few are now left in Katanga. Most were removed by the U.N.; others quit when their pay and allowances were cut and their authority reduced. Never more than 700 in number, their strength has shrunk to approximately 100. Around this nucleus has formed a rag-tail army of European civilians-not so much mercenaries, says one U.S. correspondent, as minutemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHO ARE THE MERCENARIES? | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...that Shakespeherian Rag...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: T. S. Eliot | 12/6/1961 | See Source »

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