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Adams' photographs are too thoughtful and rigorous to be called nostalgic. But some of their poignancy comes from the paradox of their making. The replicated image and its mechanical multiplication of fact slowly wore down 19th century romanticism and moved irony to the center of modernist culture. The camera, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Yosemite | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

There is always something ominous about Segal's images; no American sculptor today runs his work closer to theater. The theatricality becomes particularly intense in his painted sculptures, where the coating of figures with primary red, yellow or blue gives them a ferocious visual punch while rendering them, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Invasion of the Plaster People | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Science students live on another planet. Their courses are incredibly rigorous; if you don't keep up with the work every week, you'll fall behind your classmates. And since the courses are graded with fancy scientific Gaussian bell curves--which rate your work not only on how good it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in the Academic Factory | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

At the heart of the controversy is the Rebekah Home for Girls, a facility for wayward girls that Roloff founded in 1957. The two-story, white brick building is located next to Roloff s own two-story stone house on his 567-acre compound near Corpus Christi. Rebekah's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Doing It His Way | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

(6 of 11) enough to insist that new technology should be subject to rigorous cost-benefit analysis, but if a new machine costs, to be hyperbolic, $5 million, and saves one life in ten years, who is to say the price is not justified? Asks Dr. David Thompson of New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Cost: What Limit? | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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