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...show, and the Metropolitan's Musicians and the Uffizi Bacchus, which are. The Bacchus is detached, down to the last dirty fingernail on his pudgy hand: not a god, but a pouting, weary-eyed model in costume, his crown of vine leaves rendered with sparkling exuberance, his flesh slack and tallowy, and half the fruit bruised or rotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of the Gesture | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Finally, last week, Jeremy Levin, 52, Beirut bureau chief for the Atlanta- based Cable News Network, saw his chance. There was slack in the chain that bound him, just enough to wiggle free. "I got the chain off," he said. "It's the usual cliche. I tied three blankets together, climbed out the window onto the balcony and went down the blankets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrambling to Freedom | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...nerve cells, which control various muscles. In some cases, when muscles in the chest become too weak to function properly, polio victims need mechanical assistance simply to breathe. Though many of the polio victims who survive are left partly paralyzed, they often make dramatic progress. Muscles that had fallen slack begin to work again when healthy nerve cells sprout new connecting fibers and take over the work of cells ravaged by polio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Polio Echo | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...Cantabs did a great job of stopping Diagle, holding her to nine points and eight rebounds. Forward Mary Jane Whitten picked up the slack with 13 points, but her nine for 17 free-throw performance hurt her squad...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Cagers Repaint Dartmouth Crimson | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

...claims that its recordings make workers feel more in control of their environment and more cared for by their employers. Most important, though, is that workers slow down in mid-morning and midafternoon, and music can counteract that. Muzak's selections get faster as the workers near those slack periods. The company calls that "stimulus progression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trapped in a Musical Elevator | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

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