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Brendan H. Sheehan '96 recalled Piedrahita's wit and intellect, saying he believed Piedrahita had a special affinity for economics, friendship and "sweeping women off their feet...
SINCE ITS FIRST PUBLICATION ON March 3, 1923, some 3,700 issues ago, TIME has not only chronicled history as it has happened but also shaped world opinion and enlivened the intellect of its readers. That the magazine has been so successful at these pursuits for so long is due in large measure to its 13 managing editors, or "boss men," as the first one, Henry Luce, once called them. Each and every one has taken to heart what Luce said were the primary responsibilities of all Time Inc. editors: "To earn, maintain and to leave behind a great...
...FOLK ART IN AMERICAN LIFE By Robert Bishop and Jacqueline M. Atkins (Viking Studio Books; $29.95). Like jazz, folk art resists the advances of formal criticism. So it is a relief to hear the authors conclude their scholarly preface with the statement, "Let the objects themselves speak to the intellect, to the senses, to the spirit." That is precisely what they do in this survey of down-home paintings, needlecraft, carvings and sculpture, like Clark Coe's wood-and-metal Man on a Hog. Most ambitious of all are the free-spirited constructions like James Hampton's altar assembled from...
Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style--as writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in Heat, his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America. It also becomes a critique of pure reason. For Neil is placing impossible demands on himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent...
Neil McCauley (Robert de Niro) is an orderly and calculating bank robber. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is a disorderly and incautious Los Angeles cop on McCauley's trail. "Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style. As writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in 'Heat', his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America," says TIME's Richard Schickel. With what may be the best armored-car robbery ever placed on film, Schickel notes Mann is seeking...