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...small courtyard. Jim Sheppe wearing a huge leather backpack, tromping into the archway to the tune of an old German march which he is simultaneously singing and conducting in the air. Jim Sheppe convincing an audience of credulous Lowell House diners that he had once accidentally partaken of the flesh of two murdered Italian tourists in Africa. "But you know," one person concludes for the whole table. "I really like him. He's a very nice guy, very funny. He's just an--eccentric." Everyone nods...
...almost obsessive project, a "masterpiece" from the word go. Eakins did so many studies for it that Gross wished him dead, but they paid off. The head of Dr. Gross, thought and tension made flesh, is one of the supreme 19th century portraits, and the drama of contrast between the dense masses of black suits and gloomy tiers of students, and the swooning white of the patient's thigh surrounded by anxious straining hands and white cloth, reaches its apex in the fresh blood on Gross's hand and the retracted lips of the wound. Such imagery alarmed...
...fourth episode of Viewpoint was broadcast last week from the University of Chicago, where 850 people watched Anchor Ted Koppel in the flesh and half a dozen of his colleagues on monitors. The subject: coverage of foreign affairs. Correspondent John Laurence opened on a skeptical note, calling network correspondents "jet-age ambulance chasers." Koppel closed with a warning that globe-girdling TV technology has given Americans "the illusion that we are familiar with distant places and cultures...
...this week's complex picture of a troubled political system in the heat of a budget crisis, TIME focused on Congress and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. To flesh out the picture, our Washington Bureau filed thousands of words to New York, where National Editor John Elson oversaw the project. Senior Writer Ed Magnuson handled the main story on Congress, and Associate Editor Walter Isaacson the portrait of Baker. Senior Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, who has been covering the House and Senate for 33 years, and Correspondent Evan Thomas, who began his assignment on the Hill just last October...
...purpose to cut fat from government by limiting taxes. With only five department budgets in Cambridge over $1 million, we argue that if the first year of Prop 2 1/2 cut fat, (and. Cambridge being a well-run city, it cut more than fat), this year it will carve flesh from the city's essential services: its schools, its hospitals and fire departments...