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Albinoni: Four Concertos for Two Trumpets--Maurice Andre and Guy Touvron endow these Baroque show-pieces with a brassy panache rarely recorded. Bright, lively music, an echo of the glory that was 18th Century Italy. (Angel...

Author: By Ed Cray, | Title: Classics in Capsule | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...coverage in practically every major newspaper and magazine, several sober editorials, a FORTUNE cover and, the crowning touch, a gossipy, five-part series sold to some 50 newspapers by the Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate. Written by New Journalist Gail Sheehy (Passages), the series unblushingly depicts Cunningham as an angel, awesomely gifted, scrupulously moral and out to improve the world through humane capitalism; it is laced with enough mawkish prose and gratuitous personal detail to make Harold Robbins blush. As the scandal mounted, for instance, Sheehy reported: "Mary Cunningham sat in her hotel room at the Waldorf. She could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Mary and Bill Story | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...film mixes memory and fantasy with the surreal-life present. Its visual style is a gloss on 8½'s: seductive black-and-white images, express-train pacing, a foregrounding of comic bit players. The three main women in 8½ (a mistress, a wife, an earthy guardian angel) find their echoes here in Charlotte Rampling, Marie-Christine Barrault and Jessica Harper. Allen also appropriates Fellini's strategy of deflecting criticism by placing it in his film-in the mouths of buffoons. Predators and editors, gargoyles and groupies, all want a piece of his present and a lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Comic Master Goes for Baroque | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

Although it boasts the region's highest per capita income ($1,650), the country ran up a formidable $650 million trade deficit last year, mainly because of spiraling oil bills. The result has been declining growth, rising food prices and increased labor unrest. Warns Economist Angel Rodríguez Echeverria: "Unless we resolve our economic problems, Costa Rica could become vulnerable to the troubles of other Central American countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: The Land of the Smoking Gun | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

When not studying or working out, Ramos is likely to jog through his neighborhood at daybreak. In the gray light at the corner of Brook Avenue and East 138th Street, where he sometimes used to hang out in the winter with Popeye, Angel and Shorty, he can see up to 15 buildings that have been torched or abandoned. Despite the wreckage, according to Ramos, Brook Avenue is still the struttin'est street in The Bronx. On fine days it over flows with hip dudes, good music and fine reefer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Bronx: Campe | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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