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...year working life. The show will travel to San Francisco and New York City and will also be seen at the Pompidou Center in Paris. It deserves the audience. Anyone who thinks that all the major American artists have been locked into their historical profile should see it, and repent. Krasner has never been a trivial painter, and sometimes her work, as Rose convincingly argues, has been touched with real grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bursting Out of the Shadows | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania: "Doctors are going to have to bite the bullet and ask themselves if they really need all those tests." Physicians who routinely order nose-to-toes X rays or prescribe the latest and most costly antibiotic may be taken to task by department heads. Those who refuse to repent, warns A.H.A. President McMahon, may eventually lose their admitting privileges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Putting Lids on Medicare Costs | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...everywhere. When God commanded the prophet Jonah to go to Nineveh and order the city to repent, Jonah found the prospect so daunting that he tried to run away. God found him and sent him back. (Nineveh repented.) After KAL 007, one suspects that today even He would hesitate before dispatching Jonah on a similar mission to Moscow. -By Charles Krauthammer

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Apologies, Authentic and Otherwise | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...struggling to be truthful," says Fierstein. "Not many people do. At the beginning we meet him in full drag, and at the end he's naked, so to speak. I've written a play in which homosexuals don't commit suicide at the end or repent their evil ways. The basic theme is self-respect, the realization that homosexuals can be just as moral as heterosexuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No Opened Doors for Me | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...found guilty of "towering and heinous" crimes and unceremoniously hustled out of court, defiantly screaming, "Down with revisionism!" Jiang Qing, now 69, Chairman Mao's headstrong widow and imperious ringleader of the leftist Gang of Four, was sentenced to death, but given two years in prison to repent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Defying Death | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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