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...years ago and a quarter-billion kilometers away. The playback came to an end; sound, vision, the scent of unknown flowers and the gentle touch of the wind slowly faded. Suddenly, he was back in this cabin aboard the orbital tug Goliath, commanding the 100-person team of Operation ATLAS the most critical mission in the history of space exploration. Toby, and the stepmothers and stepfathers of his extended family, remained behind on a distant world which Singh could never revisit. Decades in space -- and neglect of the mandatory zero-G exercises -- had so weakened him that he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hammer Of God | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...flame to the Games of the 25th Olympiad. The occasion was a golden opportunity for presenting the city as a shiny new capital of a postnational world. It was also a quadrilingual glimpse into a multicultural future. Music at the celebrations that opened the Games came from an atlas of names -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Angelo Badalamenti (of Twin Peaks fame), Andrew Lloyd Webber; Placido Domingo was followed by a sea of "living sculptures" designed by a man from the West Indies. And some of the grandest cheers of all came as the unfamiliar Lithuanian flag hung over costumes fashioned by Issey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benvinguts to the Catalan Games! | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

LIBRETTOS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED out of some unlikely material -- Gertrude Stein's poetry, ancient Sanskrit texts -- but never have the words been so, well, unwordy as those for Atlas, a new opera by the minimalist composer- singer-dancer MEREDITH MONK that was performed last week in Brooklyn. La la la and Hay yo, Hay yo are just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 25, 1992 | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Arts in Review: | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

Details. We thought we'd find lots of random elements of Southern culture in Russellville, Alabama. According to our trusty Road Atlas, Russellville was a county seat, the largest city around. A city. A hotbed of cultural detail. An orgy of local color...

Author: By Dante E. A. ramos, | Title: Red and White Checkered Culture | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

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