Word: american
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TONY WALTON: DESIGNING FOR STAGE AND SCREEN. Dozens of intricate models by designer Tony Walton are on view at New York City's American Museum of the Moving Image. Triple-threat Walton has an Oscar, two Tonys and an Emmy for his work in film, theater and television. Whether creating a gleaming silver-and- white Deco hotel room for Lend Me a Tenor or a ship caught in The Tempest's hurricane, Walton gives life to a world suggested by words. Through August...
Bancroft, playing a South American aristocrat, sounds more like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share...
Chip Weil, 48, a native of Grand Rapids, has been a loyal TIME reader since he was a student of American literature at Indiana University. As a naval officer based for three years in Asmara, Ethiopia, he usually went through each issue more than once. Before arriving here he had a successful 18-year career with the Gannett newspapers; he was a senior vice president of Gannett and publisher of a ten-newspaper group with headquarters in White Plains, N.Y., and, most recently, publisher and CEO of the Detroit News. "TIME," he says, "has always been an icon...
...addition to our coverage of the Malta summit and other world events, you will find two unique pieces of journalism in this week's issue. One is an interview with East German leader Egon Krenz, the first he has given to an American magazine. The discussion deals with the fall of the Wall, German reunification, the future of socialism and Krenz's decision to avoid bloodshed in Leipzig. The other story is an amazing reconstruction of what went on behind the scenes in Prague in the months before the fall of the Communist regime. These are only two examples...
...remains full of admiration for the social reformers who founded the religion: "These guys were, like, wacko. They just appeared out of nowhere and were talking about justice and equality. Treat women equally, serve the poor, defend your rights. It fits the social and revolutionary agenda of the American republic to a tee." He shrugs. "Except that we wear beards and turbans...