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...scientists have finally managed to snare the elusive molecule, and the first "snapshot" of a buckyball, taken with the aid of X rays, has been published by Science magazine. The computer-generated drawing matches the perfect soccer-ball shape that had been predicted. "This molecule is just as marvelous as we thought," exclaims Joel Hawkins, who headed the team of University of California, Berkeley, chemists that took the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Balls of Carbon | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough his house is. In the coverage of modern art, Georges Braque's painting is shown in black and white; Christo's sketch is in color. In order to furnish the third edition with a fresh look, two sections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: You Can Look It Up | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

Verhoeven zips through his tangled story with all the brio of Brecht on a sunny day; his style is comic, ironic, daringly distanced. The girlhood scenes are played for easygoing farce and shot in black and white. Then the film bursts into snapshot color when Sonja falls in love with her teacher (Robert Giggenbach). Her hometown's streets and churches are stylized back projections. The Nasty Girl moves like an eccentric dancer, ever shifting its pace and mood, never losing its poise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: History with A Saucy Smile | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Jeffrey C. Olkin '90 is quoted as saying in a Snapshot about me in the October 15 Crimson, that I wrote a letter to Baskin-Robbins complaining that they would not let me have several free samples. I rarely ask for samples, and definitely not more than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pralines 'n Cream | 10/23/1990 | See Source »

That's the kind of mental snapshot visitors carry away with them after meeting General Wojciech Jaruzelski. It is also the framed portrait that Poland's President, who last week announced his willingness to step down, will bequeath to the nation. Easily his country's most controversial postwar political figure, Jaruzelski, 67, will leave office even more of an enigma than when he first came to power nearly a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland The Man Who Did His Duty | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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