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...master without masterpieces. Instead of singular pictures, his body of work suggests a group portrait: one vast, remarkable family, with genetic similarities more noticeable than the vagrant differences in individual ambition, audacity or achievement. Each sibling carries his or her own snapshots: the weary hostility that spills across a kitchen table in The Merchant of Four Seasons; the riff of revenge in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant when a quiet young woman walks out on her longtime dominatrix to the bluesy strains of The Great Pretender; the logger-heading of fear and desire in a dozen Fassbinder movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Master Without Masterpieces Andres Segovia: 1893-1987 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...Student government: The Undergraduate Council, the University's first officially recognized student government in years, gets underway this fall, and students are scheduled to vote for representatives in October. The council will replace the pathetic Student Assembly, known for its ludicrously low attendance and for one singular accomplishment: securing additional toilet paper for the River Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

Student government: The Undergraduate Council, the University's first officially recognized student government in years, gets underway this fall, and students are scheduled to vote for representatives in October. The council will replace the pathetic student Assembly, known for its ludicrously low attendance and for one singular accomplishment: securing additional toilet paper for the River Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

...Student government: The Undergraduate Council, the University's first officially recognized student government in years, gets underway this fall, and students are scheduled to vote for representatives in October. The council will replace the pathetic Student Assembly, known for its ludicrously low attendance and for one singular accomplishment: securing additional toilet paper for the River Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/16/1982 | See Source »

Everyone from conservative William F. Buckley to the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the emphasis must instead be shifted to what is singular about prisons, the irreplaceable nub. It is imprisonment alone that can keep predators off the streets, and that result is what the U.S. must begin chiefly seeking for its $4.5 billion a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are Prisons For? | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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