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Parker, however, lacks George Higgins' obsession with the city and uses his local details more sparingly. He works a more middle-class milieu; the reader gets to know suburbs like Lynnfield and Marblehead too. He is also careful to keep his echoes just that. Spenser is not Marlowe or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boston Op | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

Many feminists, however, find Isadora's obsession with men a confirmation of the worst stereotypes about women. Sandra Hochman, author of Walking Papers, admires Jong's frankness but complains that Isadora is "just another female loser, left in the end to choose between one creep and another." Becky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Loves of Isadora | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

It was not a struggle, as Clark wryly makes clear, that can be neatly schematized. The same movement, after all, encompasses Ingres, "imprisoned within his obsession with the outline," and Turner, experimenting with pure, nearly formless color. Indeed, Clark finds romanticism's unconscious beginnings in the work of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Pleasures of Clark | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

In keeping with the marked obsession of this week's capsules with the twin themes of Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards will open Jan 31 at the Harvard Epworth Church. Sometimes, everything seems to come together like some vast jigsaw puzzle...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE STAGE | 1/16/1975 | See Source »

Although the automakers are repeating mistakes of earlier industries, they have also invented new and original problems for themselves through their philosophy of maximizing production and sales. Henry Ford's obsession with increasing worker productivity evolved into a belief in the right of management to treat their workers as machines...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: The Decline and Fall | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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