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Nabokov crossed too many borders to have been a winner in the geopolitics of the Nobel Prize. Yet he gave a prize greater than any he might have received: his challenging, intricate fiction, which miraculously demonstrates that art is not a mirror held up to na ture, but rather a prism that refracts blinding reality into rainbows of wisdom and feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vladimir Nabokov: 1899-1977 | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Most theme parks are a mirror image of the puritan work ethic. The idea here is to play, hustle and use the last cent's worth of the $30 plus it may take a family of four to get in. At most parks (major exceptions: Disneyland and Disney World), there is a flat admission fee that enables parents and offspring to sample and resample every major attraction without charge. Remembering the rapacious playlands of the past, where gambling, boozing and whoring were as rife as popcorn and pizza, most theme parks promote soft drinks and fast foods. They dispense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Pop Xanadus of Fun and Fantasy | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...salute to you and your valiant family, Mr. Lowe! Walk proudly and carry a rear-view mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1977 | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

Kirchner's drawings are perhaps his purest and most beautiful work. They mirror the feelings of a man of our times, instinctively and without premeditation. Besides, they comprise the formal language of his prints and paintings, that other part of his work in which a conscious will operates. The vital power of this will, however, derives from drawing...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Chronicles of a Crossing | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...course, that didn't help Todd any. The night before an hourly for which he was perfectly well prepared, he stood in the bathroom looking into the mirror and slit his wrist...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Nothing a few games wouldn't cure | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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