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N.C.'s artistic style set the style for his family. Ruddy, with the outdoorsy zest of his Welsh ancestors, he painted robust men of action whose thighs and biceps strained the seams of some of the best-executed costumes in all book illustration. Generations of children know the gnarled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Cover: Andrew Wyeth's World | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

I've tried it both ways. I've been married twice, and the only time I wasn't having a lot of sex was when I was married. I look back over the years--the happiest times for me were the times in the early stages of romantic love, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Hugh Hefner | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

If something is certain about the revolutionaries that overthrew the pharaonic regime of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba 50 years ago, it is that they managed to change the world—and that they have lasted. Armed more with romantic idealists than ammunition, including men of the calibre of Ernesto...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: That 50 Years Is Nothing | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

Founded on Jan. 12, 1959, Motown quickly became another Detroit factory; where the Big Three produced automobiles, Motown assembled the soul and pop classics that changed America. There's no hyperbole in that statement. Arriving at the height of the civil rights movement, Motown was a black-owned, black-centered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motown | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

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