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In London, Victorian curios

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pictures from a Lost England | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

NATIONAL. 12.3 million passengers last year. Averages 873 landings and takeoffs daily. Three intersecting runways, ten scheduled airlines. Too small for four-engine jets. Delays of 30 min. or more: 818. Accessibility: its reason for survival. Allow 12 to 25 min. to White House by car or cab ($4.60). Downtown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: TIME'S Guide to Airports: Jet Lag on the Ground | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Ensor's career was not just provincial; it was provinciality itself. He was born in Ostend, the Belgian seaport and watering place, in 1860. His parents ran a little junk shop (it also sold masks for the yearly Ostend Carnival), and Ensor's childhood was obsessed by "our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ensor: Much Possessed by Death | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

Foxes in Russian fables are foxier than any imagined by La Fontaine. One tries to lure his prey out of a tree by an impassioned appeal for public morality: "O chanticleer, my beloved child! You are sitting on a tall tree and thinking thoughts that are evil and accursed. You...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russia's Magic Spring | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

Body Stealer. There is some padding in the 13,390 entries. Is anyone likely to misplace humid or fervent or dawdle? Bernstein includes some delightful, half-remembered curios-a body stealer, for example, is a resurrectionist. But where is mooncalf? Where is poshlust? Sometimes the clue words are elusive. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mot Juste | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

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