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Another convincing oddity is the work of Simon Read, whose bizarre photographs-the face distorted and stretched, like a rubber mask-are done with elaborate bellows-and-pinhole cameras that he makes himself. Taken as serials of the same motif, in accordance with the rotation and expansion of the camera, the photographs assume a shifty, hallucinated look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Sticks to Cenotaphs | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...anger that Americans originally focused on Iran, while hardly forgotten, is mainly being directed against a new target: the Soviet Union. In New York, a man in a ski mask left a bomb at Aeroflot's Manhattan office Sunday night, Jan. 13; the explosion stunned three French passersby. At Long Island-MacArthur Airport, which handles radar controls for the area's three major airports, Controller Tony Maimone refused to guide an Aeroflot jet into Kennedy. Said he: "If I have to lose my job to show the Soviets that we won't be pushed around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Needs Their Vodka? | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...smiling blue eyes, page-boy haircut, and lithe figure mask the passionate intensity and determination concealed inside. Her walls display pin-ups of favorite sports heroes, including Celtics star Dave Cowens--she taught at his basketball camp last summer. A favorite quotation by O.J. Simpson hangs near-by: "Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only thing that endures is character...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: NANCY BOUTILLIER | 1/25/1980 | See Source »

Warren Zevon (Asylum, 1976). If a Black Mask writer studied Stravinsky, turned to rock and set down his hard-boiled romances on a piano played by shooting the keys with a .44 Magnum, he'd sound a little like Warren Zevon. Just a little. Rock of rare recklessness and unguarded sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: THE BEST OF THE SEVENTIES | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...clerks loaded up ten carts and off they went, Douglas leading the procession in wheelchair, his secretary pushing and spraying Lysol on the wheels to mask the odor from the bag for his incontinence...The unpleasant odor filled the room...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Justice on Parade | 1/3/1980 | See Source »

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