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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used a smoked Claude Lorraine glass -- so that the image turned out more optical than visceral. But as his sense of the relations between mark and motif increased, Johnson's landscapes accumulated power, and some of the later Scandinavian ones, like Harbor Under the Midnight Sun (1937), are robust, fluent and assured. Johnson's early years are completely ignored at the Whitney, which robs the show of any pretense of being a real retrospective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return From Alienation | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

Judging by the doctrinaire platform going before the Republican Convention this week, the conservative coalition that Ronald Reagan constructed 12 years ago seems as robust as ever. Just below the surface, however, the right wing suffers a mid-life crisis that threatens its future -- as well as the party's. The movement lacks an inspirational leader, a unifying cause and an external enemy big enough to outweigh its internal divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rot on the Right | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...have a more intimate understanding of the doomsday scenario than Bernard T. Gallagher. Known to his friends as Bud, he was a Strategic Air Command pilot and served as director of Mount Weather for 25 years, until his retirement last March. A robust 70 years old, he wears a white cowboy hat, drives a hot-pink '65 Mustang convertible and is an unabashed patriot. As an "atomic-cloud sampler," he flew through the billowing mushrooms of 13 U.S. nuclear blasts in 1952 and 1953. To measure the radiation passing through him, he swallowed an X-ray plate coated with Vaseline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doomsday Blueprints | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...strains of Negro spirituals, which he set compellingly for piano. The album boasts fine performances, especially by pianist Virginia Eskin. WILLIAM GRANT STILL (1895-1978) was similarly eclectic. A staff arranger for the Paul Whiteman band, he could pen a delicate gem like the Seven Traceries suite or a robust concert piece like Africa, originally for orchestra. Pianist Denver Oldham gets them just right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jul. 20, 1992 | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...BEEN BILLED AS THE GRAND BATTLE OF THE Yitzhaks: a robust election campaign pitting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir against the toughest foe he has faced -- the former and newly returned head of the Labor Party, Yitzhak Rabin. Instead, the fight has shriveled into what the Jerusalem Post last week called "the Longest Yawn." Voters are so overcome with ennui that the major parties are canceling campaign events for lack of attendance. Posters and banners can hardly be seen in the streets. And Shamir's Likud is moaning that the Venezuelan soap opera Crystal is drawing the party's natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Longest Yawn | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

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