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...trend arises mainly from a search for a more humane form of capital punishment. Three drugs will flow into Hays to render him unconscious and paralyze his heart: thiopental sodium, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride. Theoretically, they should make dying no more traumatic than falling asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A New Executioner: The Needle | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...mate a fine opportunity to have killed him with a throw of his lance. His first impulse was to do so, but on a second look, observing his tail directly beneath the rudder, his better judgment prevailed lest a flourish of the tail should unhang the rudder and render the ship unmanageable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nantucket: Moby Dick Revisited | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...parodying established modern masterpieces (Matisse's Red Studio, or the cubist work of Picasso and Juan Gris, or Carlo Carra's Red Horseman) is to see a very informed mind at work, particularly at obscure levels of parody. How, for instance, does one render the odd ambiguities and shifts of cubist or futurist painting in terms of this rigidly determinate dot-and-line style? Of course, it is not paintings but reproductions that Lichtenstein parodies; reproduction itself reduces art to dots, and by increasing the scale of that convention, Lichtenstein exposes it, reminding us that most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An All-American Mannerist | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...caught up. I was done in by my two chief virtues-candor and courage." He denied that either the White House or the State Department nudged him out, and said that both Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig telephoned to suggest other Government posts "in which I could render great service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Requiem for a Do-Gooder | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...George Washington University National Law Center, Burger boldly argued that society's concern about a convict should not end when the cell door clangs shut. Declared Burger: "When society places a person behind walls and bars, it has a moral obligation to take some steps to try to render him or her better equipped to return to a useful life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prison Nightmare | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

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