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DESMOND PFEIFFER Stupid series mugs Lincoln, mocks slavery. Pronounced "Puh-feiffer," as in "Puh-thetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

Anabolic steroids are essentially the male hormone testosterone and its syn thetic derivatives. They were developed to alleviate strictly medical problems: correcting delayed puberty and preventing the withering of muscle tissue in people undergoing prolonged recovery from surgery, starvation or other traumas. Curiously, U.S. athletes were indirectly introduced to the drugs by Soviet athletes. In 1956 the late Dr. John Ziegler attended a world weight-lifting championship in Vienna and was told that the drugs were greatly improving the performance of the lifters from the Soviet Union. Ziegler, believing that U.S. athletes could also helped by the drugs, worked with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Toughest Test for Athletes | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...authors say that the solution to this dangerous predicament is to wean energy users away from Middle Eastern oil. To achieve this, Global Insecurity urges a three-pronged effort: finding new reserves, developing alternative sources like solar power and syn thetic fuels, and conserving energy by using it more efficiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Stuck over a Barrel | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

Franz Marc and the Blue Rider group welcomed him; Kandinsky discoursed to him on the law of form. Hartley was also in love with a handsome young German officer, Karl von Freyburg. He evolved the style Haskell so admires, a kind of syn thetic cubism heavily studded with military symbols and panoply, most conspicuously the Iron Cross itself. Von Freyburg was killed in the early months of the first World War. The result was the Portrait of a German Officer, which even incorporates Von Freyburg's initials in its lower left corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Return of an Errant Native | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...Schepisi (The Devil's Play ground, Jimmy Blacksmith), Weir forms a nucleus of directorial talent that could do for Australia what the New Wave did for France in the '50s and the Prague Film School graduates did for Czechoslovakia in the '60s ? make it at least an aes thetic force to be reckoned with on the world's screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up from Down Under | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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