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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potted palms, brass-and wood-fitted motorcars and, above all, the manners, styles and quaint equipment to be found a half-century ago in an expensive health spa like the one where Christie went to ground. These Director Apted photographs with a dreamy yet intensely curious eye, and the result is a slow but curiously absorbing entertainment, something like a stroll through a well-restored historic house where one is led to romanticize the lives once led there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Restoration | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...fewer than three projects going simultaneously, sits down seven days a week at a cluttered desk in his Manhattan apartment and writes at least eight hours a day, banging out manuscripts at a phenomenal 90 words a minute. Unconcerned with literary style, Asimov concentrates instead on clarity. The result is a manuscript that can usually be taken from the typewriter to the typesetter. His publishers, who know a good thing when they see it, welcome his work, from which they have made millions over the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...heard of Pericles, simply because Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned prominently in the Bible and Pericles is never mentioned at all." Biblical Scholar Asimov characteristically mentions all: history, biography, geography, archaeology and cross-culture myths that are the roots if not the artistic and spiritual blossoms of the Good Book. The result is another testament to the author's Jovian powers of assimilation and explication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple. But the two, who first met at a writers' conference, are close friends. They are also competitors and over the past several years have tried, with limited success, to top each other at composing limericks. The result of their 1978 Shootout is a book in which each offers 144 of the five-liners. One of Ciardi's milder offerings reads: "Said a voice from the back of the car,/ 'Young man, I don't know who you are./ But allow me to state,/ Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Harutunian also said the directing and interuptions undoubtedly affected the result. "It broke all our concentration and confidence," he said. "Foil and epee just didn't fence at their level." He added, "If Harvard wants this kind of win, they can have this kind of win. Good luck to them...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Fencers Slash Bulldogs, 17-10 Amid Controversy Concerning Touches | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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