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But Escher's asset was an intricately schematic intelligence, and this he used with such wit and patience that he became, without modern rival, a master of visual paradox. A great many of Escher's prints were about teasingly blocked situations. They are scientific demonstrations of how to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: n-Dimensional Reality | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

Aside from the picturesqueness of it all, however, a thatched roof provides several definite benisons. Its thickness (about a foot, on the average) keeps noises out and it is a great weather insulator as well. But there are some drawbacks: once a thatched roof begins to deteriorate, birds find their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Just Swell | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

The Berlin Wall, which has served so often as a backdrop for human suffering, last week witnessed a very different sort of scene. From the divided city's Western sector, they came on foot by the thousands-old people struggling with sacks full of presents, small children carrying freshly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Crack in the Wall | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

But he'll get another chance next weekend in the NCAA's in Chicago, "It's my style to set traps," he said, quickly recovering. "Most people don't think when they're on the strip. They attempt to overpower their opponent." Valenzuela prefers to set up situations in which...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Valenzuela Didn't Take a Vacation | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

Like many a Texas barroom brawl, the fight between a Viet Nam veteran and a friend in the Panhandle town of Phillips was ostensibly over a girl. But by the time it ended, the friend lay dead of seven gunshot wounds. The veteran, a former Green Beret, dazed and thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Violent Veterans | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

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