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Robert Zakanych exhibited at Reese Palley last November, and a new artist of singular grace and power seemed to have arrived. Praised as a colorist, Zakanych-a solidly built, Midwestern-looking 36-year-old who actually hails from New Jersey-denies the classification: "People are always trying to tell me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Three Bold Newcomers | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

Above all, the event itself, the fact that it took place. Rarely had a U.S. President spent so long a time-a full week-in a foreign land. The visit, moreover, was to a country with which the U.S. did not even have diplomatic relations and which for two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Richard Nixon's Long March to Shanghai | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Paul Scofield is a precision instrument. His performances are full of small gestures, asides and intuitions that are subtle, telling, always right. He is the master of inflection and implication if not, perhaps, of epic passion, which is why a Scofield Uncle Vanya is more successful than a Scofield Lear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Masterly Inflections | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

ROBERT FITZGERALD'S workmanlike, understated, "Point of Order", cites Agee first for his "Discipline, delicacy, precision, and scruple," and only secondly for his "range of awareness, moral passion, and visualizing power." In its brevity, this paragraph in finale is more pithy than much that precedes it.

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: James Agee Remembered | 2/25/1972 | See Source »

For 1971, that is. Last week, playing in the $25,000 Women's International at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., her first tournament since the U.S. Open, Little Miss Cool was hotter than ever. In a stunning upset, she blasted Billie Jean off the court. A fixture on the clay courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Miss Cool | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

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