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...Knopf; 107 pages; $25). They embellish quilts and samplers, weather vanes and water jars, chests, chairs, tavern signs and tombstones. Authors Cynthia V.A. Schaffner and Susan Klein, both of New York City's Museum of American Folk Art, celebrate the heart's presence in American folk decoration. The image pervaded the culture of the young country and on the evidence of this book reached its zenith among the Pennsylvania Germans. The new immigrants painted their bright, elaborate designs on pottery and furniture, inked them on love letters, and even incorporated them into birth certificates. Amid these ebullient displays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Library to Celebrate the Holidays | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

Although Harvard, for the most part, had its way with the visitors, it was MIT who scored first, surprising Ginsburg and the Crimson defenders four minutes after the first touch. MIT striker Grant Schaffner knocked a cross across the Crimson goalmouth, which Ginsburg pushed into the path of fellow frontliner Ed Savard...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Booters Reach.500 Mark With 4-1 Win Over MIT | 10/10/1984 | See Source »

...name from Jones to Bowie to avoid confusion with a member of the Monkees. He also flirted with imitating everyone from Anthony Newley to Bob Dylan, and spent three years on and off studying with the mime troupe of Lindsay Kemp, who has been described by Rock Historian Nicholas Schaffner as "Scotland's ultra-camp answer to Marcel Marceau." "Lindsay taught me more about what one can do with a stage than anyone," Bowie remarks now. "Just one small movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Bowie Rockets Onward | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

Strawberries also cuts from the list price, says clerk Simon Schaffner, adding that its higher prices are attributable to its higher overhead...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: How the Coop Stacks Up | 2/2/1983 | See Source »

...spats but no visible sex, a rich range of overlit settings for a parade of Pavarotti's greatest hits, plus a funny nun, two funny servants and a not-so-funny food fight (in case someone from the Animal House crowd wanders in by mistake). Franklin J. Schaffner has directed as if no one let him in on the scam. Poor chap seems to be taking the whole thing seriously. Or maybe he just ran too many old Mario Lanza pictures in preparation for the assignment. Still, amid prodigies of too carefully calculated (or miscalculated) charm, Pavarotti plays with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema: Oct. 11, 1982 | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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