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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beckett is photogenic; perhaps only Ezra Pound is more so, the secret being not to care what people think of you. This scorn for public taste seems distinctly 20th century. Beckett won't acknowledge the camera, and defies close-up. His wrinkles are far more impressive than W.H. Auden's; Beckett's struggle to cover the bone, Auden's are ornamental. It's a neat twist to find Beckett and Buster Keaton together in one photo (Keaton played the protagonist in Beckett's Film)--Keaton the supreme silent comedian, Beckett (equally a master of comedy) minimizing theatre toward a condition...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Waiting for Photo | 12/13/1979 | See Source »

...year later the group began discussing specific options. Included were various mixes of Pershing Us, ground-launched cruise missiles and submarine-launched cruises, as well as weapons whose identities are still secret. The U.S. outlined the advantages and disadvantages of each of these items in terms of accuracy, payload, cost and political implications. Clearly, the Pershing II and cruises were the best solution to the new realities. Furthermore, neither was an entirely new system. Neither could be portrayed as a "terror" weapon like the ill-fated neutron warhead, which in the spring of 1978 had alarmed public opinion in Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Meeting Moscow's Threat | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...secret of the leucaena's rapid growth is in its roots; they extend as deep as the tree is tall. That enables it to soak up nutrients below the reach of other plants. Growing on the leucaena roots are fungi called mycorrhizae that help by absorbing phosphorus compounds that cannot be used by most plants, and converting them into forms that can nourish the tree. Then too the steady dropping of leaves provides rich nutrition for other plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Schmoo Tree | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps the girls have need to keep their secret world. Born in 1970 in Columbus, Ga., to Accountant Tom Kennedy, now 47, and Christine Kennedy, now 37, a German-born bookkeeper he met in a Munich dance hall during the Fasching festival, Gracie and Ginny suffered violent convulsions days after birth. Tests showed no brain damage, but the Kennedys claim that a Georgia neurosurgeon said it would be five years before the girls could be judged normal or retarded. Kennedy, who later lost his accounting job and moved the family to San Diego in hopes of selling real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ginny and Gracie Go to School | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...when the two teams emerged for the second period, the Quakers unveiled their secret weapon: freshman guard Maria Ramiu. A replacement who saw little action in the first half, Ramiu displayed startling speed as she drove, spun and twisted for 17 second-half points...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: UPenn Edges Women Hoopsters, 72-70 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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