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...longer. The Verdi revival of the past decade has focused on the early operas; all but three are now available on records, and enterprising opera companies are putting works like Oberto and Giovanna d'Arco on the stage. At the New York City Opera, Attila has taken the State Theater in a blaze of barbaric splendor: the composer's ninth opera, it stands revealed as an uneven but vivid work. Those with more traditional tastes in Verdi could go across Lincoln Center to the Metropolitan Opera, which last week introduced a handsome new production by Tanya Moiseiwitsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Viva Verdi! Viva Verdi! | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...trendy, left-of-center Observer had been in danger of failing until it was bought in 1976 for the token price of ? 1-plus its outstanding debts-by Atlantic Richfield Co., the U.S.'s seventh largest oil company. Arco spent about $14 million to modernize production facilities, and under its ownership, circulation rose from 600,000 to nearly 1 million. Arco Chairman Robert O. Anderson had been eager to sell it, partly because he was finding it burdensome to oversee the paper's operations from his Los Angeles headquarters more than 5,000 miles distant. Said an Arco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paper Tiger | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...major source of production--is now the largest uranium strip mine in the world. Nor is it a coincidence that Rossing's predecessor in this dubiously prestigious position was the Jackpile Mine at Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico--operated by Anaconda for the Atomic Energy Commission, and now by ARCO (the parent) for anyone who wants uranium. As Morton points out, "There is a relation between racism and uranium...

Author: By Winona Laduke, | Title: Harvard to South Africans: Let Them Eat Yellowcake | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

...Yellowcake: The usable product of uranium milling operations, later converted into plutonium MARKET VALUE OF HARVARD STOCKHOLDING IN URANIUM CORPORATIONS COMPANY VALUE Atlantic Ritchfield-ARCO-Anacona $17,465,122 Duke Power 3,323,592 Continental Oil 6,538,679 Kerr McGee 1,645,230 Phillips Petroleum 8,996,703 Exxon 35,442,488 Gulf Oil 7,126,660 Mobil 18,360,622 Shell Oil 1,234,631 SOCAL 20,912,364 Virginia Electric...

Author: By Winona Laduke, | Title: Harvard to South Africans: Let Them Eat Yellowcake | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

...leaking in torrents from disgruntled insiders at RCA. That wrecked any hope that the top personnel change could be made without another barrage of bad publicity. Though RCA had prepared a four-page press release that was to be issued following last Monday's regularly scheduled meeting of Arco's board of directors in Los Angeles, the company had to put out a statement two days early that Griffiths was being replaced by Bradshaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RCA's Whirling Merry-Go-Round | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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