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...Barba, 30, packs more than his American Express card when he leaves his home in Long Beach, Calif., these days. In his luggage are twelve compact life-style support systems, including a 1/2- in.-thick electric shaver, a book-size radio, an even smaller iron, a collapsible fishing rod and a 5.3-oz. rechargeable power pencil sharpener. "They let me concentrate on the job," he explains, "instead of running around frantically trying to resolve a minor problem that could become a major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Small Comforts for the Road | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...miles. After graduating from Jasper High School, he spent 15 years in the Air Force, serving as a flight controller, mostly overseas. He returned to Jasper in 1967 to provide a more stable life for his six children: Monica, 31, Melvin, 30, Stan, 27, Terry, 25, Cheryl, 21 and Rod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: High Spirits on a Plastic Pulse | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

Duncan, Clarke and Wackerbath are hardly the first to tie together essentially unrelated works with a single object: Rod Serling and his cigar made a career out of it. The only way to transcend cliche is to go for it: modesty is no virtue in conceptual art. Duncan's mediocre ambition appears in every picture, while the overreaching bravado of hauling two red couches in a van for four years is captured in nearly every shot. Inevitably, the quality comes from the men and not the metaphor

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Color Red | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

Calvino did not start his literary career as the Rod Serling of the novel. His first major work, The Path to the Nest of Spiders, was part of the Italian neo-realist movement that emerged from the wreckage of Fascist Italy. Two thirds of the stories in Difficult Loves comes from this period from...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: How Difficult Is Love? | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

FOXBORO, Mass.--Rod Rust was fired yesterday as defensive coordinator for the New England Patriots, and was replaced by linebacker coach Steve Sidwell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/25/1984 | See Source »

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