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...Martha Reeves, looking better than ever as she reprised her Vandellas anthem, Nowhere to Run. Something new: Patti LaBelle joining Joe Cocker in an unlikely but inspired duet of his You Are So Beautiful. Something borrowed: the Four Tops stepping in at a moment's notice to sing backup to Boy George and Stevie Wonder in his new Part Time Lover. And something blue: Marilyn McCoo's rendition of Am I Blue? as a tribute to Ethel Waters. When the show didn't sing, it danced: Gregory Hines tapped in tribute to Teddy Hale, then Sammy Davis Jr. introduced seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Uptown Saturday Night: The Apollo Theater | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...power of the play comes from the barely suppressed rage of its central characters: Ma Rainey (Theresa Merritt), a fierce, massive singer who has reacted to prejudice by creating an isolated world in which she need not tolerate the least compromise, and her backup trumpet player (Charles Dutton), a keenly ambitious composer-arranger who is fixated on the memory of his mother's rape by white thugs. When these two potent wills clash, the bystander who suffers is, inevitably, one of their own and not a white oppressor. Episodic and slow but vividly real in portraying even minor characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: They Defied the Doomsayers | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

Schindler was a backup outfielder as a freshman and a backup first baseman since then. Last year he made his first college pitching appearance, when he earned a save for three innings of work...

Author: By Mike Knoblerler, | Title: Kay's Little Finger Poses a Big Problem | 4/23/1985 | See Source »

...sort of bored with the whole idea of a conservatory. All the people are competing with one another, whereas here, everyone is here to help each other." Besides, he adds. "It always helps to have a well founded education. In case something happens to my fingers, I have a backup...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Tsang: The Carnegie Cellist | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

...With what's out there, firepower-wise," the official said, "we figure if we're nuked nobody's going to worry about data backup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Learning to Laugh | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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