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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most antiquarian and arguably cruel of ceremonies. People trek to the senate house at 9 a.m. and find out their fate," he says. In the past, the person with the worst score would then step forward and have a wooden spoon dropped on his head from the balcony, he says. "Everything's public and aboveboard; there's none of this I.D. number business...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: British Fellowships Return Rhodes' Favor | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

...general the Japanese in Paris were conservative in their taste, preferring as models Renoir and Monet to Picasso. Some of the high points of this show are conservative in the best sense, such as Kishida Ryusei's superrefined Still Life (Three Red Apples, Cup, Can, Spoon), 1920, in which the Japanese passion for wabi -- unfussed, natural simplicity -- finds its way into a still-life scheme inherited from Andre Derain. When Umehara Ryuzaburo went to extremes in 1938 with Nude with Fans, the limbs drawn in thick dissonant red and green lines, his prototype was Matisse's work of 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Japanese with A French Accent | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...brother's predicament. You are missing the point if you try to watch one chunk of carrot in the roil of this Sleazy Street stew (the phrase is from a country-funk song lyric in praise of downward mobility: "It's coffee in the pot and a dirty sugar spoon/ it's towels on the floor of a dirty bathroom/ and a smell like me and a smell like you/ all mixed together in a Sleazy Street stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleazy Street AFOOT IN A FIELD OF MEN | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

MOST CONFUSING FISH DISH Dubbed Skin Caviar by its maker, La Prairie, and packed with a silvery spoon, this chemical anti-aging goop looks good enough to eat. It raises the question of whether these tiny pearly grains are meant to be spread on toast or on one's face. The latter is the answer, of course, but if stored in the refrigerator, Skin Caviar, at $65 for two ounces, could lead to some surprise snacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Year of Dining Dangerously | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...legs stretched out in a restaurant booth, Gary Hart looked tired but pleased with himself. He had found private life for seven months unbearable, he said. Now he felt whole again. Nearby, his wife and son sat with half a dozen political volunteers. Hart leaned over the table to spoon some chicken noodle soup from a bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M Not a Fool | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

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