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...sure to be secondary. The day's highlights can only be the discoveries, surprises, delights, touchings and twinges that are bound to occur among people newly aware that they spring from a common past, a time carried forward in the sometimes accidentally transformed names of long-dead slave owners: Baum, Bennett, Littlejohn, Palin, Phelps, Reavis, Reevis, Blunt, Blount, Honeyblue, Horniblue and Dickson, among others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roots of Dorothy Redford | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...have either abandoned their highly rated restaurants or plan to commute between the New World and the Old. Among the more strongly committed is the versatile Gerard Pangaud, formerly the owner of a two-star Paris restaurant that bore his name. He has thrown in his lot with Joseph Baum, the inventive New York impresario who created The Four Seasons and Windows on the World. Baum now runs a promising, quasi-postmodern creation called Aurora, where eclectic new French-American cooking prevails. Among the better menu choices are the roasted pigeon with sweet garlic, lime-broiled guinea fowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Have Toque, Will Travel | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...second act, where the Broadway version bogged down in depiction of the family's fate, the narrative confidently shifts into analysis of the American character -- the need for belief and common purpose and even catastrophe to shake people out of self-absorption. As Lee Baum, the author's surrogate, Neil Daglish is touching, introspective and believably American. But the play's most convincing voice is Miller's, admonishing us: "There has never been a society that hasn't had a clock running on it." His American Clock records harrowing midnights and piteously false dawns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Torn Apart and Pulled Together the American Clock | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...Great Mouse Detective is aimed at children and their indulgent parents, Labyrinth (written by Monty Python's Terry Jones) means to beguile precocious adolescents of all ages. With nods to L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz) and Children's Author Maurice Sendak, Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are: deaf-and-dumb doorknobs, feral party animals that toss their heads like volleyballs, a terrier-faced knight and his sheep-dog steed, a silly sage with a talking bird growing out of his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Walt's Precocious Progeny | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Stevens said it was "probable" that Baum supported or recommended a bid to renovate the D Annex which was priced lower than the $363,000 contract awarded in February to William A. Berry and Son, Inc. of Danvers...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Slander Defendant Will File Response | 10/1/1985 | See Source »

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