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That is the work you get in "Robert Rauschenberg: Combines," a sumptuous, witty survey that continues through April 2 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and then moves to Los Angeles, Paris and Stockholm. Combines was Rauschenberg's term for the big, hard-to-classify works???were they paintings? sculptures??that he began making around 1954 and focused on for the next 10 years. With every one of them, he blithely exploded all remaining assumptions about what a work of art was supposed to be by making it into a container for everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Misfits | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

...relatively warm November has helped, but the Department of Energy gives much of the credit for the shrinkage in demand to high prices that in turn have led to greater conservation efforts. Citizens are discovering that plugging holes to keep cold air out and hot air in actually works???and saves money. This may not add up to Jimmy Carter's "moral equivalent of war," but the President's description of the energy crisis no longer seems absurd. Heat itself has regained its elemental magic, and keeping warm has become a tribal obsession. The season of Great Cold approaches. Scrape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...trying to extort something, but to the massive wishes of people who have a right to express their views." Yet there is an inevitable element of coercion. The protest's sponsors plan monthly moratoriums, with each round to be a day longer than the previous one. If that plan works???a doubtful proposition?its impact could be immense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...Public Works???Edouard Daladier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tabby Cabinet | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Minister of Public Works???M. Hacigeanu

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peasant After Peasant | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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