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...Arshile Gorky who got right??to the point. "If Picasso drips," he said, "I drip." That was in the late 1930s, a time when deciphering Picasso's intentions, getting inside his darting, catch-me-if-you-can progress, from Cubism to Neoclassicism, from Surrealism to Guernica, was an all-important matter to that small but crucial category of American artists who had no use for the approved manner of the moment, American Scene realism. Grant Wood's farm folk and Thomas Hart Benton's small-town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picasso's Progeny | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...Lemon, tangy and full of vitamin C," she promised, picking a squirming insect from the trunk of a tree fern. She might have been right???but luckily for the native ants and the tourists, drops of rain came streaming down through the canopy, sending the tangy fare scurrying for cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eco-Friendly Resorts: Into the Woods | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...also live in an era in which research is showing us how to nurture and maintain our mental faculties?from infancy through the golden years?and how to deter what was once seen as an inevitable decline. Some new findings confirm what we have always suspected: Grandma was right???fish really is brain food; a steaming cup of joe actually does turbocharge our mental acuity; getting less than eight hours of sleep seriously compromises our ability to concentrate and solve problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Tune Up Your Brain | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...Begin insisted again that this formulation was unacceptable. He was angry, and so was I. I replied, "Do you reject Resolution 242? Your definition of its meaning is biased. To delete it would mean that we have no basis for negotiation. What you say convinces me that Sadat was right???what you want is land!" Begin retorted, "The problem of security also involves territory. We are willing to return Sinai; for the time being we are conceding our legitimate claims of sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Gaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Faith | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...their success and a safe return to their homes and loved ones. But ordinary life must go on." In Gloucestershire, Prince Charles was asked about Prince Andrew, second in line to the throne and a Sea King pilot aboard the Invincible. Prince Charles replied: "He's all right???just flying very busily. I don't think he's ever done so much flying in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Explosions and Breakthroughs | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

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