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NEAR THE END of The Last Detail they are in a wintry park and the kid sits hungover and breaks a stick in two with deep concentration. Later he stands sillhouetted in the distance and jerks the clockface Navy hand-signals he's learned from Nicholson in the last few...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Join the Navy and See the World | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

Here was where people came to buy their coca. Two-foot high transparent bags appeared green with the small leaves that the Bolivian Indians chew as part of a tradition dating back millenia. On the altiplano, where the nights are wintry and food scarce, the coca leaves, when chewed hour...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

"THOU METTEST with things dying, I with things new-born!" With this stirring line "The Winter's Tale" shifts from the wintry tragedy of its first part to the vernal romance of its second. Ripping apart the links of that Great Chain of Being with disease and death in the...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: Sad Tale for Winter | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

Wintry Fare. At age 30, Conductor James Levine is on his way. A virtual unknown three years ago, Levine now ranks with Michael Tilson Thomas, 28, as one of the two hottest young conductors on the American scene. Tackling such wintry fare as Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, or sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orpheus in the Gray Shades | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

Sir / Camelot is now replaced by a wintry landscape where man's social ills are resolved by the simple application of euphemisms (e.g., "benign neglect"). Could it then be that the political climate not only reflects but also generates the aspirations of a given era?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1973 | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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