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Examining them with a hand compass earlier this year, Dartmouth Geographer Vincent H. Malmstrom found that its needle was sharply attracted whenever he held it to the navel of some of the statues, the right temple of others. Reason: these parts of their anatomy were themselves magnets. More astonishing, the rotund figures are about 4,000 years old, 2,000 years older than the first evidence of Chinese experiments with magnetism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Fat Boys | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...look for technique, you'll find a lot of talent in Newsfront. Vincent Monton's photography is graceful and effective. Switches from color to black-and-white seem random, but Monton does well with both...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Between the Idea and the Reality | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...fellow Catholic and countryman George Moore, historian of the French Revolution and Cassandra of its Irish offspring, dreading that "the spirit of Rousseau is in the very air these days, like dandelion puffballs." Recording the contagion, as one of the novel's several narrators, is the Rev. Arthur Vincent Broome, M.A. (Oxon.), dispatched from England to shepherd a Protestant flock in distant Killala but soon questioning whether he is merely a "priest to a military cult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Wake | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...crucifying her Jesus freak mother; Roy Scheider spooning fish entrails into the sea, prissily calling out to Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss "Why don't you guys shovel some of this shit?" and as he hits the last word, noticing this big shark a few feet from his face; Vincent Price, dressed as Richard III, leaning over a butt of marmsy wine in which he has just drowned a lush theater critic, sighing, "I hope he travels well"; Peter Cushing prattling pleasantly about stakes through the heart over snifters of brandy, while upstairs the heroine, her bosom heaving...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...Vincent J. Gambello Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1979 | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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