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...operatic heroines go, Ariadne is definitely not as sweet as Mimi, nor a resolute as Aida, nor as popular as either But composers from Monteverdi to Rich ard Strauss have invariably had a hard time resisting her charms. That is more than can be said for that noted male chauvinist Theseus, who simply dropped her off one day on a tiny Greek isle. Ariadne's latest operatic reincarnation might not be entirely to her liking either: she appears merely as the voice of a missing statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Musgrave Ritual | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...question of how the once unremarkable Berkowitz acquired his demonic delusions will, of course, be the object of intense psychiatric study. Born Rich ard David Falco, but given up for adoption by his mother at birth, the killer was raised by Nathan Berkowitz, a respected owner of a small hardware store in The Bronx. His first wife pampered David, but one family friend recalls that the boy sometimes would "curse her because he knew he was adopted." Nevertheless, when she died of cancer in 1967, her teen-age son sobbed openly at the funeral; no body could remember his crying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sam Told Me To Do It... Sam Is the Devil | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Scott, who tallied 22 points, and backcourt running mate White, who added 21, led the Celtics back to a deadlock by intermission. Jim Ard's bank shot at the buzzer gave Boston a 53-52 halftime edge. The substitute center combined with Tom Boswell for 20 points to make up for the loss of Cowen's steady scoring from the middle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celtics, Bruins Bag Wins | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

...grew up in an America filled with hate and war and drugs and Watergate and CIA-FBI "investigations" and Rich ard Nixon free and James Hoffa free and Helter Skelter and Attica and riots and murder and rape and kidnaping . . . and I asked, "Dear God, what has happened to my country?" Last night I read the article on torture, and I thought, "Thank God I am an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 6, 1976 | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...divorced ex-writers get together to discuss dividing the spoils: their 17-year-old daughter. Hannah (Tammy Grimes) has the true verbal grit of New York City and is a senior editor at Newsweek. William (George Grizzard) basks in Cal ifornia as a contented Polo Lounge liz ard. They both shoot from the quip. Al though William is defensive, he has the punchiest line: "New York is not Mecca - it just smells like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Simon in the Sun | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

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