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...then fuck it, it can't be done." Like a keypunch operator waiting for a computer to spew out solutions, Robbins must have sat hopefully in front of his Remington SL3 expecting that, if he hit a button here and there, the sophisticated machine would spit back a novel of answers. Still Life With Woodpecker does not bear...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Stillborn Still Life | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...show Wednesday afternoon, and when a six-year-old got bored and started crying (too much R2-D2) he and his father walked out. So you can scoff, if you must. But you can also swallow a spoonful of sugar or say Supercalifragilistic-expialadocious. Go see it, spit spot. Very well. Carry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bombs | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

...eruption of Mount St. Helens, which began in a minor way on March 27, was the first in the continental U.S. since the Cascades' Mount Lassen, 400 miles to the south, spit up a shower of mud and stones in 1914. Had last week's explosion occurred in a heavily populated area, the loss of life would have been awesome. Geologists estimated that St. Helens spewed out about 1.5 cubic miles of debris, a blast on about the same order of magnitude as the one in A.D. 79 from Italy's Vesuvius, which buried Pompeii and Herculaneum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God I Want To Live! | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...published by Viking next fall, Duncan describes how, in the course of preparing some Picasso canvases for photography, he took a swipe with a feather duster at a 1938 self-portrait-and smudged a part of the canvas. Writes Duncan: "I spent the whole morning dabbing with spit-moistened Kleenex trying to reduce the damage, to clean away the smudges." By lunchtime, the hour at which Picasso usually got out of bed, Duncan, his face gray-green, had to confess his crime. "What's happened?" asked the artist, thinking Duncan had crashed his beloved 300 SL Mercedes. After hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Trajectories of Genius | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

JOHN NANCE GARNER, who may have made less of an impact on American politics than any high ranking U.S. official in the twentieth century, is best remembered for his comment that the vice presidency--a post he held anonymously under FDR--"isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit." Walter Mondale, conscious of Garner's feelings, insisted in 1976 that Jimmy Carter let him be an "activist" vice president. "Activist" meant he didn't want to be treated like another former vice president and Mondale's political mentor, Hubert Humphrey, who found his way into the Oval Office as often...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Carter's Better Half | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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