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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York to find objects comparable, in their fields, to the Met's tiny sphinx of Amenhotep III, modeled in a faïence of such dazzling blue that even in a glass case it seems to vibrate in front of one's eyes; or the massive silver head, possibly of the Sassanian King Shapur II; or the exquisitely elaborated 17th century flintlock gun made by Pierre le Bourgeoys for Louis XIII; or even such small items as a 3rd century B.C. bronze of a Greek dancer, whirling on her axis like a Hellenistic Martha Graham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Show and Tell | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...pretty familiar: Mass Pike, through the middle of Connecticut, New Haven, Bridgeport, the Bronx. Northern Connecticut is the prettiest part; the Connecticut coast is old and industrial. Outside of New York City you pass what must be the world's biggest cemetery and a White Castle where they sell silver-dollar-size hamburgers for fifteen cents each. The traffic is bad and the view uninspiring on the George Washington Bridge, and I wouldn't give you much for Northern New Jersey, which smells bad. The only things about the Jersey Turnpike that are worthwhile, in fact, are that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISCELLANY | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

Joni Mitchell doesn't paint pensive self-portraits with flowers for her covers any more. There's a city skyline in silver-gray behind a row of little houses on their little plots. There's a huge expanse of green in front, and six naked people are carrying a boa constrictor through it. This is no background, this is foreground...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Moog and Metaphors | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

...time and energy. This thought must have occurred to Jerry Ford about halfway down the sheer steps from a pagoda towering over Peking's Summer Palace, which was the breathtaking extravagance of the Ching dynasty's Dowager Empress Ci xi; she diverted $50 million worth of silver earmarked for her navy to rebuild the paradise. Ford pondered the steep descent, and his mind wandered back home to the Rockies. "This would be a good ski slope-there's a nice turn down there," he mused. He would have been better off in Vail. What he accomplished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: More Summits? Think Mailgram | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...Texas. Indeed, all of the front four, except White, whose father was college-educated, come from poor rural backgrounds in the South. They all played their college football for obscure schools. For Holmes, it was Texas Southern University in Houston, where campus buildings "had bullet holes the size of silver dollars" from student riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HALF A TON OF TROUBLE | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

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