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...western. The musicians brought a guitar and fiddle on the show, launched into a sample tune, Orange Blossom Special, and won their suit. In the case of the permanent that wasn't, Beauty Salon Operator Katharina Binder borrowed a glass of water from the judge and dunked a strand of young Michelle's hair into it, hoping to show that it would curl. But her hair was dead in the water-and so was the Binders' case. Concluded Wapner: "Michelle appears to me to be an extremely nice young lady. I like her looks, I like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Oyez! Don't Touch That Dial | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

Like the veteran and skilled performers they are, Begin and Sadat once again put on a public display of warmth and respect that reflected their private views of each other. They talked at the White Elephant, a local restaurant on a sandy strand of beautiful Naama Bay. Relaxed and smiling, the two leaders posed in wicker chairs on the restaurant's windswept veranda like a couple of contented tourists. There was a brief moment when the air of cordiality at the conference was threatened by an angry demonstration of Israeli settlers, who will be forced to leave when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Pausing at the Summit | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...Morita because he wanted to be able to listen to high fidelity music while playing tennis, the sets allow the novelty of taking one's favorite music where it could never go before. Said Los Angeles Carpenter Howard Bogaz, 25, while roller-skating on the colorful Venice, Calif., strand: "I use it while I'm working, I take it when I ski or on long drives. I'm into my music! The sun is out, the wind is blowing, and you're on your wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Great Way to Snub the World | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...work that night in Waikiki, however, Cohen realized that there might be a short cut. Boyer and his associates had found a so-called restriction enzyme that cuts DNA precisely at predetermined points, and performs this surgery in an especially helpful way: at each end of the severed, twin-stranded molecule, it leaves an extra bit of single strand poking out, automatically creating the "sticky" mortised ends that Berg had labored so hard to achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Life In the Lab | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...normal and proper one for avant-garde art, was to take a step back from the ideal of the artist as Public Man that had been embodied in Courbet's career. It meant running for the constituency of the exception and the misfit, not the majority. One main strand of the avantgarde, as it developed in the 19th century and bequeathed its composition to the 20th, hated crowds and democracy, wished to absent itself from the political agora, and stood on its own rights to develop in what Joyce was to call "silence, exile and cunning." It asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Farewell to the Future That Was | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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