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Early one morning last week, TIME Correspondents Roberto Suro and Gregory Wierzynski were ushered into the wood-paneled office of Alexander Haig for the first on-the-record interview for a U.S. magazine that the Secretary of State has given since the Inauguration. The Secretary's pace has been exhausting for days, and his eyes were red from fatigue. But he was unhesitant, almost ebullient, throughout the 45-minute interview. He emphasized his points with a full panoply of theatrical gestures, everything from a stage whisper to his booming general's voice. Excerpts from his remarks...
...Wood, North Carolina...
...play opens, the omens seem propitious enough. Director and set designer Brian Sands has endowed the wood-panelled Dunster dining room with just the right touch of seediness--probably not too difficult given the age and condition of most Harvard dining halls...
...travel, so in art: the painters looked to foreign sources, inside and outside France, for inspiration-Breton carvings, the crude popular woodcuts known as the images d'Epinal and, above all, the Japanese wood-block prints that had been arriving in France in a steady trickle for the quarter of a century since Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay. What these influences produced, in the work of Van Gogh, Gauguin and the various painters who were, at one moment or another during the late '80s, linked to their work (among them, Maurice Denis, Louis Anquetin, Emile Bernard, Paul Serusier...
...subject available to the general reader. This is not surprising since Goodman, a former magazine journalist, financial editor and investment manager, writes about economics as a lively art, not as a dismal science. Here he is pondering the Big Bang theory of real estate: "Why should bricks and mortar, wood and paint, increase in price even faster than inflation? It is because not only is the currency diminishing in its worth relative to fixed objects, but belief in the currency is diminishing even faster, at a geometric rate. Thus the conventional wisdom, that what goes up must come down...