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That particular dictatorship, as a number of the Louisville plays make clear, has been overthrown. Now, in the emerging sensibility of equality, men and women must find-new places for themselves and each other. It is a challenge eagerly faced by the five young people in A Weekend Near Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rising Above the Murmur | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

THIS is a musical, so complications arise, every one an excuse for the cast to break into a Busby Berkeley-style number. Jackie shines in all of these, especially the infectiously up-beat and hummable "He's Got Body, He's Got Soul." No slouches either are the Wombatts, Jackie...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Punk Fluff With Spikes | 3/4/1983 | See Source »

Music lovers who cannot stand the sound of silence carry their tunes with them on portable cassette players. Now frustrated singers in Japan are turning to a far more elaborate audio apparatus. Known as karaoke, or empty orchestra, sets, they give users the feeling of being accompanied in song by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closet Carusos | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

If Anderson's targets are largely conventional-the despoiling of the environment, the horrors of war-her methods are not. A voice-activated synthesizer called a Vocoder allows her to speak and sing in chords. Her violin bow has prerecorded tape where the hairs should be, and is drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Post-Punk Apocalypse | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

SURPRISINGLY enough, Barbie led a high-profile existence in his newly adopted homeland. With the generous help of various right-wing military dictators. Barbie obtained Bolivian citizenship in 1957 and soon established a profitable external commerce company-in reality a front for an arms shipment network. The ex-Gestapo officer...

Author: By Evan T. Bart, | Title: A Time For Retribution | 2/18/1983 | See Source »

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