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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Law Professor Hal Scott, a friend of Ginsburg's since high school, says the new nominee is a social conservative, though not in the Bork mold. "The difference is Bork is a conceptualist," says Scott. "He has a theory, and the issue is how to fit the case into the theory. Doug comes at things case by case." With Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, Scott says, "everyone will get a fair shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: If At First You Don't Succeed . . . | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...decided to major in art history at Barnard College in New York City. Influenced by minimalists like Sol LeWitt, she tried her hand at sculpture. In the '70s, Manhattan galleries also featured musicians like Minimalist Composer Philip Glass, and Anderson gradually drifted into performance art. In one early conceptualist effort, she stood playing the violin while wearing ice skates implanted in a block of ice; when the ice melted, the piece was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Post-Punk Apocalypse | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

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