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...freshly painted houses cover the small knoll that rises north of the town square. The homes of the middle class cost about $20,000; those of the poor are timeworn but neat. One of the tallest buildings in town is a barnlike structure built by a woman who gives baton-twirling lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small-Town Blues | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...mile relay, an official pulled Jackie Ball off the track and away from receiving the baton because he miscounted the laps of the incoming runner, Co-Captain Elizabeth Ross. The official apparently thought Ross had one more lap to go when, in fact, she was finished...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: Tracksters Suffer Through Bad Weekend | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...attend the final session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. One main purpose of the meeting: to approve the most far-ranging document on human rights since the Helsinki accords in 1975. But Johanes' endorsement only underscored the hypocrisy of the Czech regime. That day, baton-wielding police used tear gas, water cannons and dogs against 4,000 ^ people who were about to begin a peaceful demonstration in Prague's Wenceslas Square. The rally was called to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Jan Palach, a student who set fire to himself in protest against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Actions Speak Louder | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

From overture to finale, Mikado is uniformly excellent. Orchestra problems, which traditionally plague the G&S, are conspicuously absent under the able baton of Jeff Tennessen...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Turning Japanese | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

BRITTEN: PAUL BUNYAN (Virgin). Sir Benjamin's tuneful first opera was conceived in 1939 as a Broadway show with a libretto by W.H. Auden. It never played the Great White Way, but it comes to life under Philip Brunelle's baton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 7, 1988 | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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