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...sits atop his Olympus on Majorca, the nobly weathered head shielded from the sun by a broad black hat. He moved to the Spanish island on Gertrude Stein's recommendation ("It's paradise if you can stand it") and has spent most of the past 50 years in the cliff village of Deya being crusty, godlike and protean. Graves' bibliography lists 59 collections of poetry, 20 works of prose fiction, 43 books of essays, autobiography and criticism, four anthologies, ten translations and one play...
...when Artist Anna Sofaer was photographing spiral petroglyphs in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, once the center of a flourishing Indian civilization. The carvings had been left by the area's former inhabitants, the Anasazi. For hundreds of years they lived in the canyon, creating astonishing multistoried cliff dwellings, only to vanish mysteriously at the start of the 14th century. Sofaer, visiting the site around the time of the summer solstice, noticed that a beam of sunlight sliced right through one large spiral...
Harvard continued its winning ways in the 880 and the 1000. Bob Higgins ran his best 880 race ever as he and teammate Cliff Sheeham came from behind to pass Huskte Jim MacKinnon on the last turn and capture first and second...
...crews were filming shots of Harvard's exterior that will probably be included in an upcoming movie titled "Class" and starring Jacqueline Bisset and Cliff Robertson, among others. Orion Pictures plans to release the picture this July...
...could produce the $150 billion to $200 billion that the Social Security system needs to make sure that it can continue mailing checks on time to 36 million Americans through the 1980s. But, unfortunately, whether or not the deal will ever actually be struck has turned into a cliff-hanging suspense story...