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...metamorphic and it demands mental participation in all the associations made and transformations performed. Aspects of reality which would never be rationally juxtaposed are struck together--sparks fly. The typewriter eraser, for example, becomes a tornado in one series of drawings. The round rubber spins violently around the center screw (the eye of the tornado) and the trailing brush sweeps all before it, leaving a dust cloud in its wake. The seemingly innocuous object reveals itself as a force of destruction...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Only Connect the Interlocking Image | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

...Please don't screw it up for me by getting these people defensive," Bossert said...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Bossert Gives Diners in Lowell House His 'State of the Plumbing Address' | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Intimidation draws salesmen and Ringer's fellow graduates of "Screw U.," his updated term for the School of Hard Knocks. Brentano's, a bookstore chain that promotes Intimidation heavily, says the book is moving fast in all its stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Power Boys: Push Pays Off | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...with straw, the same kind of building material used in Moses' time. The old woman's husband, Hammouda Hamed, tills his two acres of land very much as his ancient Egyptian ancestors did. He lifts water from irrigation rivulets to his field by hand-turning an Archimedean screw invented in antiquity. He gets water up to the level of the field by the ages-old device of blindfolding his gamoosa (water buffalo) and driving the animal around in a circle to turn a water wheel. At night, Hammouda's buffalo and chickens sleep in the house with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: How the Bottom Billion Live | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...Bailey has already said that he will try to prove that Patty was under duress. But his opponent remains confident. "Sure there's pressure in this case," says Browning. "But U.S. Attorneys can't really make it or break it on any one case, unless they really screw it up. And that's not going to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Patty's Prosecutor | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

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