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...thongs of formalized pink tendon. But against these, one must reckon such masterpieces of the imagined figure as Elohim Creating Adam, 1795, with the repressive God of the Old Testament, terrible in the weight of his beard and vast wings, waking the serpent-bound Adam to a life of toil and subjection. And his sense of dramatic terribilità, in the midst of the grotesque, was unparalleled. Few demonic images in Western art radiate such a nightmarish charge of sexual energy as The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, 1803-05. Based on Revelation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Gentle Seer of Felpham | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Rewarding and fruitful--despite the long hours of non-glorious toil. That's what being a Harvard manager is all about...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: The Unsung Heroes | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

...toil or danger...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Angels and Devils | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

...practice, according to Policeman turned Novelist Joseph Wambaugh, is a harness-bull euphemism for what cops do together off duty to relieve the tensions of their enervating jobs. It appears to consist mainly of boozing, wenching and venting gripes against their superiors and the semimilitary system in which they toil. It follows that the participants in these raunchy revels are The Choirboys. The movie of the same title just got in under the New Year's Day wire as 1977's most repulsive release, but Hollywood will have to go some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sour Notes | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...free--to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny we hold in our hands...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Of Love and Longing, Trials and Triumphs | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

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