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...fussily decorated palace consumed 63 tons of imported marble, ten tons of wrought iron, three tons of carved teakwood from India, onyx for inlaying, thousands of square feet of gold and copper leaf, 42 crystal chandeliers, as well as enough stained glass for 80 windows. Claimed cost of the materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Remote Spiritual Disneyland | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

What hath all the hoopla and brouhaha wrought? Not much. The convention merely reaffirmed several predictable phenomena...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Candle Burning at Both Ends | 7/22/1980 | See Source »

...class they will need three things to make it: a strong technique, a good agent, and a thick skin. By the time graduation rolls around, the oncenaive wunderkinder have developed the latter. At its center, Fame is really a monument to modern-day egoism. What has the Me Generation wrought at PA? A bunch of conceited, albeit talented, immortality-seekers who think of nothing but themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bursting in Air | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

Scattered through The Real War are references to the evil wrought by protesting students--"Unfortunately, America is still suffering from the legacy of the 1960's. A rabid anti-intellectualism swept the nation's campuses then, and fantasy reigned supreme." (Ohhh, so that's what The Movement really was--"rabid anti-intellectualism," let me get that down...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Last of the Dominoes | 6/3/1980 | See Source »

...Degas invested their brothel paintings. More vividly than ever, against the backdrop of earlier Picassos, it becomes clear why his friends thought he had gone crazy, why the painter André Derain actually predicted that Picasso would hang himself behind the big picture. The painting is freighted with aggression, carefully wrought. The nudes are cut into segments, as though the brush were a butcher knife. Their look, eyes glaring from African-mask faces, is accusatory, not inviting. Even the melon in the still life looks like a weapon. The space between the figures is flattened, like a crumpled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Show of Shows | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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