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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amble said after the meet of Jenning's awesome performance: "When I looked up at the half-mile mark and saw the lead she had, it was amazing. She was just about out of sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Thwart Yale, Fall to Princeton | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

Alone among a gallery of Hieronymous Bosch portraits, only the narrator does not suffer from disease. Yet as he becomes more and more entangled in the recondite workings of the hospital, he loses sight of his mission--to rescue his wife--and begins to accept the wild illogic of his new environment. In the end, he is driven to reconciling himself to his condition, and, as he embraces the poor, diseased nymphomaniac melting in his arms, he embraces his own disease. It is only in this affirmation of his loneliness and illness that the narrator affirms his human identity...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Illness as Simile | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...America is left to ponder their most recent phenomenon. No one--Mick Jagger, FDR, John Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Carter, or Lucky Lindy--ever sucked the love and respect out of so many people in one meeting, at first sight, with so few and precious words and movements as John Paul II did in one week...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Going Away Sadly | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...Lautrec was perhaps the most spectacular peintre maudit of the late 19th century: a doomed dog of modernism, fit for Hollywood. No reputation can quite survive a movie like Moulin Rouge, and ever since its release in 1953 the popular image of Toulouse-Lautrec has been shaped by the sight of Jose Ferrer, legs bound, peering with lugubriously feigned interest up at the boiler-plated buttocks of Zsa Zsa Gabor. Thus Toulouse-Lautrec became one of the few artists most everyone has heard of, a guarantee perhaps that the retrospective of 109 of his paintings, along with a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gaslight and Fallen Souls | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

When the coalition lost sight of its collective goal, we lost our most powerful weapon--unity. When the goal ceased to be stopping Seabrook and instead became, as it did Monday, more random actions against the fence, we lost our power...

Author: By Jennifer L. Marrs, | Title: Direct Action: A First Attempt | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

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