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...glass. His nimble fingers can fashion fragile slivers into wild flowers with a captivating attention to detail; leaves have been munched by insects; petals show the wilt of age; and beneath the plant a tangle of roots seeks nourishment from the earth. True, they are not exact replicas of woodland plants, but neither are they prettified curios. Each spiderwort, evening primrose or wood lily is a stylized representation of growth and decay. The complexity of the design, Stankard says, must not be obvious. "It must reveal itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: Capturing Nature in Glass | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...depressed; friends spoke of Levi's dark moods. Yet despair was not what the outside world detected last year after Philip Roth climbed those stairs to interview Levi in his study. "He seemed to me," wrote the American novelist, "inwardly animated more in the manner of some little quicksilver woodland creature empowered by the forest's most astute intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War Against Forgetfulness THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

...course, sweetly, soberly mad. She fills the house with her collections of newspapers and tin cans, carries crackers around in case she runs into a woodland sprite, gets a kick out of it when the house is flooded, and is obviously an unfit stepparent. The outraged townsfolk, with their passion for convention, soon influence Lucille, the younger, staider of the girls. Ruth is made of sterner, that is dreamier, driftier stuff. Like Sylvie. Like Bill Forsyth. Not that he would ever pass judgment on the choices the women ultimately make. Or ask for an explanation. All he proposes is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off The Cliff HOUSEKEEPING | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...nice to know that the team looks to me in more ways than simply my on-the-field play," the 6-ft., 2-in., 220-lb. native of Woodland Hills, Ca. says. "I'm their marauding general...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Harvard's Marauding General | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

North House Master J. Woodland Hastings said hewas ambivalent about the project's cancellation"Many contemporary artists on the cutting edgemeet resistance, and it's difficult to distinguishbetween this and concern about the space beingcompromised," he said...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: College Decides to Forego Tiger Stripes on the Quad | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

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