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It is missing the point to call it a fake, to point out that the blood on Koloff's head came from a plastic pouch concealed in his trunks, or that the two wrestlers probably rehearsed for weeks the choreography of this championship bout. When Bruno delivers the flying drop...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Great Russian Chain Match | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

Derain's The Turning Road, L'Estaque, 1906. Luxe is a clumsily tender Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light. The painting is drenched in idealized wistfulness, even to the title, taken from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stroking Those Wild Beasts | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

Various armed groups had been struggling for post-Independence power in East Timor for six months. In August the Timorese Democratic Union (U.D.T.), a right-wing group favoring Portuguese federation, fought its way to power in Dili, only to be driven out by the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH PACIFIC: Invasion in Timor | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

We'd been on one train from Warsaw to West Germany, our theatre luggage on another which hadn't arrived. No way to get information from railway authorities in East Berlin. A day passed. Consulted I Ching. Oracle said: Don't worry; relax and feast. While we were stuffing ourselves...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Ineluctable Modality | 12/13/1975 | See Source »

While historic documents continue to be found occasionally in attics or old trunks, the supply of valuable autographs is drying up. In the age of the telephone, few people write personal letters. Even great men have their papers typed and signed by autopen. This is a distressing prospect for historians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Signed in Gold | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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