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...Award-winning Children's Author Maurice Sendak has written or illustrated more than 80 books, designed costumes and sets for five operas and staged theatrical versions of his works, including the classic Where the Wild Things Are. Trying something new, Sendak last week was at work on his first movie. He teamed up with Director Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion, Never Cry Wolf) and Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet to film The Nutcracker, a production that Sendak designed three years ago at the request of Kent Stowell, the company's artistic director. The transition from page to stage to film...
...magazine will be similar to the other editions of TIME, which 32 million people around the world read each week. TIME AUSTRALIA will retain the parent magazine's award-winning design and news coverage. In addition, TIME AUSTRALIA will feature a new section, Australia, that will focus on major national news events. Other stories about life Down Under will appear throughout TIME AUSTRALIA in various sections of each issue, such as Economy & Business, Books, Medicine and Sport...
...senior year Allard led his team to a 7-3 record, sharing the league title with the University of Pennsylvania. The co-recipient of the Bingham Award for Harvard's best athlete in that same year, Allard times in baseball...
Facing a double explosion of rate increases for liability insurance and lawsuits that seek compensation for personal injuries, 16 state legislatures have reacted by placing limits on the damages that courts can award. In Colorado and Florida, the new laws went into effect on July 1. But just under the deadline, long lines of lawyers formed in both states last week to file suits. On Monday fully 1,000 suits were launched in Denver's district court; 100 would be normal. A record 643 suits were filed in Miami's Dade County courthouse on the same day, almost three times...
...transatlantic speed record previously held by Britain's Queen Mary. Time: 3 days 10 hr. 40 min. Last week a 72-ft. racing craft owned and captained by British Airline and Record Magnate Richard Branson clipped 2 hr. 9 min. off the record, earning the "blue riband" traditionally awarded for top speed, and, presumably, the Hales Trophy glorifying it. But the ocean-liner fraternity cried foul. The curator of the U.S. Merchant Marine Museum, where the trophy is housed, refused to yield it to "a toy boat," as he called Branson's $2.3 / million Virgin Atlantic Challenger II, with...