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Construction had started on Yale University's new Seeley G. Mudd Library. But inflation was exceeding expectations, and Yale needed to find another $1.5 million as the projected construction cost grew to $6.7 million. Meanwhile, resting virtually unseen in a library vault was the Yale coin collection's most famous gold piece, a 26-gram doubloon struck in 1787 by New York Goldsmith Ephraim Brasher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For U.S. Colleges, Fiscal Ed 1A | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...bite the bullet and petition his patrons "to temporarily withdraw [Heaven's Gate] from distribution to allow me to present to the public a finished film with the same care and thoughtfulness with which we began it." Within 24 hours, from his arrival in New York with the unseen film to his decision to withdraw and recut it, Cimino had gone from Heaven to Hell. And from nearly every movie mavin came the cackle of contumely: the arrogant director had committed career harakiri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How to Play Hollywood Hara-Kiri | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...with all four legs stiff and off the ground, and a rider waving his hat high. Lovell's Cooling the Big 50 is a powerful charcoal drawing showing a plainsman pouring water on the barrel of his rifle, which he has been firing for some time at an unseen target (buffaloes? attacking Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: A Million Dollar Sale of Cowboy Art | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...power of the Schlitz malt liquor bull. Schlitz has spent $30,000 for bulls that storm through the walls of bars to prove their machismo. The theme of the new Mercury campaign is the automaker's battle with foreign competition. In each commercial, the lynx, lured by an unseen pan of beefsteak, leaps atop a huge globe and symbolizes a sleek survivor that will conquer the world. Says Manny Perez, who produced the commercials: "The animal pushes the right emotional buttons in the viewers' minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wags to Riches | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...Republican presidential nominee launched his drive for the White House, as tradition decreed, over the Labor Day weekend. In shirtsleeves, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering behind him in the heat of New York harbor, he spoke at a New Jersey rally: an unseen member of the audience was destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AMERICA DECIDES | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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